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Cabombaceae is the botanical name
Botanical name

A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature and, if the plant is a cultigen, the additional cultivar and/or Group epithets must conform to the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants....
 of a family of flowering plants. The family has been recognised by at least some taxonomists. The family consists of two genera of aquatic plant
Aquatic plant

Aquatic plants — also called hydrophytic plants or hydrophytes — are plants that have adapted to living in or on aquatic environments....
s, (Brasenia
Brasenia

Brasenia is a waterplant genus belonging to the family Cabombaceae, consisting of one extant species widely distributed in warm temperate and tropical regions of the world....
 and Cabomba
Cabomba

Cabomba is a waterplant genus, one of two belonging to the family Cabombaceae. It has divided submerged leaves in the shape of a fan and is much favoured by aquarists as an ornamental and oxygenating plant for fishtanks....
), totalling half-a-dozen species.

The APG II system
APG II system

A modern list of systems of plant taxonomy, the APG II system of plant classification was published in 2003 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, APG, in...
, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system
APG system

A modern list of systems of plant taxonomy, the APG system of plant classification was published in 1998 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. The system is unusual in being based, not on total evidence, but on the cladistics analysis of the DNA sequences of three genes, two chloroplast genes and one gene coding for ribosomes....
, of 1998), supports inclusion of the family as part of the other water lily family, Nymphaeaceae
Nymphaeaceae

Nymphaeaceae is a name for a family of flowering plants. Members of this family are commonly called water lilies and live in freshwater areas in temperate and Tropics around the world....
. However, APG II does allow 'Cabombaceae' as an optional segregate.






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Cabombaceae is the botanical name
Botanical name

A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature and, if the plant is a cultigen, the additional cultivar and/or Group epithets must conform to the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants....
 of a family of flowering plants. The family has been recognised by at least some taxonomists. The family consists of two genera of aquatic plant
Aquatic plant

Aquatic plants — also called hydrophytic plants or hydrophytes — are plants that have adapted to living in or on aquatic environments....
s, (Brasenia
Brasenia

Brasenia is a waterplant genus belonging to the family Cabombaceae, consisting of one extant species widely distributed in warm temperate and tropical regions of the world....
 and Cabomba
Cabomba

Cabomba is a waterplant genus, one of two belonging to the family Cabombaceae. It has divided submerged leaves in the shape of a fan and is much favoured by aquarists as an ornamental and oxygenating plant for fishtanks....
), totalling half-a-dozen species.

The APG II system
APG II system

A modern list of systems of plant taxonomy, the APG II system of plant classification was published in 2003 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, APG, in...
, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system
APG system

A modern list of systems of plant taxonomy, the APG system of plant classification was published in 1998 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. The system is unusual in being based, not on total evidence, but on the cladistics analysis of the DNA sequences of three genes, two chloroplast genes and one gene coding for ribosomes....
, of 1998), supports inclusion of the family as part of the other water lily family, Nymphaeaceae
Nymphaeaceae

Nymphaeaceae is a name for a family of flowering plants. Members of this family are commonly called water lilies and live in freshwater areas in temperate and Tropics around the world....
. However, APG II does allow 'Cabombaceae' as an optional segregate. In either case the family is accepted among the most basal lineages in the clade angiosperms. Many botanists now recognize both families as part of the order Nymphaeales
Nymphaeales

Nymphaeales is a botanical name at the rank of order . When recognized, it includes Nymphaeaceae and sometimes other aquatic plants. This order is not part of the APG II system 2003 plant classification , which instead has a broadly circumscribed family Nymphaeaceae unplaced in any order....
 together with Hydatellaceae
Hydatellaceae

Hydatellaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants containing the genus Trithuria, which has been recently re-classified to include the genus Hydatella....
.

External links

  • in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). : descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval. Version: 3 May 2006. http://delta-intkey.com