New York Metropolitan Flora

Family: Menyanthaceae

By Science Staff

Not peer reviewed

Last Modified 04/03/2013

List of Menyanthaceae Genera

Menyanthes Nymphoides

References to Menyanthaceae

  • Andreas, B. K. 1981. The Gentianaceae and Menyanthaceae of Ohio USA. Castanea 46: 102-108.
  • Armstrong, J. E. 2002. Fringe science: are the corollas of Nymphoides (Menyanthaceae) flowers adapted for surface tension interactions? Amer. J. Bot. 89: 362-365.
  • Chuang, T. I.; Ornduff, R. 1992. Seed morphology and systematics of Menyanthaceae. Amer. J. Bot. 79: 1396-1406.
  • Cook, C. D. K. 1990. Seed dispersal of Nymphoides peltata S.G. Gmelin O. Kuntze Menyanthaceae. Aquatic Botany 37: 325-340.
  • Erbar, C. 1997. Buckbean and water-fringe-relatives of Gentianaceae or Asteraceae? Floral development in Menyanthes trifoliata and Nymphoides peltata and some remarks on the systematic position of the Menyanthaceae. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 119: 115-135. (In German)
  • Inoue, N.; Tobe, H. 1999. Integumentary studies in Menyanthaceae (Campanulales sensu lato). Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 50: 75-79.
  • Lughadha, E. M. N. et.al. 1989. Heterostyly and gene-flow in Menyanthes trifoliata L. Menyanthaceae. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 100: 337-354.
  • Mason, C.T. 1965. Preliminary reports on the flora of Wisconsin No. 53 Gentiacaceae and Menyanthaceae-Gentian and Buckbean families. Trans. Wisconsin Acad. Sci., Arts, and Letters 54: 295-329.
  • Meyberg, M. 1988. Cytochemistry and ultrastructure of the mucilage secreting trichomes of Nymphoides peltata Menyanthaceae. Ann. Bot. (London) 62: 537-548.
  • Michaels, H. J. et.al. 1993. Interfamilial relationships of the Asteraceae: insights from rbcL sequence variation. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 80: 742-751.
  • Stuckey, R. L. 1974. The introduction and distribution of Nymphoides peltatum (Menyanthaceae) in North America. Bartonia 42: 14-23.
  • Thompson, F. L. et.al. 1998. The reproductive ecology of island populations of distylous Menyanthes trifolia (Menyanthaceae). Canad. J. Bot. 76: 818-828.
  • Tippery, N. P. et.al. 2008. Generic circumscription in Menyanthaceae: a phylogenetic evaluation. Syst. Bot. 33: 598-612.
  • Tippery, N. P.; Les, D. H. 2011. Phylogenetic relationships and morphological evolution in Nymphoides (Menyanthaceae). Syst. Bot. 36: 1101-1113.
  • Wang, Y. et.al. 2005. Reproductive consequences of interactions between clonal growth and sexual reproduction in Nymphoides peltata: a distylous aquatic plant. New Phyt. 165: 329-335.