Genus: Orontium

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Last Modified 01/31/2013

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Nomenclature

Orontium Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 324. 1753.

List of Orontium Species

References to Orontium

  • Barabe, D.; Labrecque, M. 1983. Vascularization of the flower of Calla palustris Araceae. Canad. J. Bot. 61: 1718-1726. (Also Orontium)
  • Barabe, D.; Labrecque, M. 1985. Vasculature of the flower of Orontium aquaticum Araceae. Bull. Soc. Bot. France Lett. Bot. 132: 133-146. (In French)
  • Buzgo, M 2001. Flower structure and development of Araceae compared with alismatids and Acoraceae. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 136: 393-425.
  • Casadoro, G. et.al. 1982. Flowers of Orontium aquaticum membrane rearrangement in chloroplast chromoplast inter conversions. Journal of Ultrastructure Research 81: 202-208.
  • Grear, J. W. 1966. Cytogeography of Orontium aquaticum (Araceae). Rhodora 68: 25-34.
  • Klotz, L. H. 1992. On the biology of Orontium aquaticum L. (Araceae), golden club or floating arum. Aroideana 15: 25-33.
  • Nie, Z. L. et.al. 2006. Intercontinental biogeography of subfamily Orontioideae (Symplocarpus, Lysichiton, and Orontium) of Araceae in eastern Asia and North America. Molec. Phylogenet. Evol. 40: 155-165.