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Caldesia
Sign in to saveCaldesia is a genus of aquatic plants. It includes three living species widespread across Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. The genus "has an extensive Oligocene through Pleistocene fossil record in Eurasia," and has been found in fossil strata of the United States (Idaho and Vermont) as well. Ten fossil species have been described for the genus.
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Vinony's link graph records 7 inbound references to Caldesia, and connects out to United States, Europe and India.
It is catalogued under topics including Alismataceae, Alismataceae genera and Freshwater plants.
Vinony links it to 17 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
泽苔草属（学名：Caldesia）是泽泻科下的一个属，为多年生、沼生草本植物。该属現存3种，分布于歐亞非及澳洲。其化石記錄見於歐亞大陸的大部分漸新世和整個更新世的地層。
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 6
- With media
- 3
- Family
- Alismataceae
- Collections
- UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS, UPS, B, BG
- Recorded in
- Switzerland, Cameroon, Italy, Germany
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Alismataceae
- Image
- Caldesia parnassiifolia3.jpg
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- taxon name
- Caldesia
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Caldesia
- Commons category
- Caldesia
- taxon common name
- kaldezija
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Taxonomy
- Description
- Selected species
- References
Caldesia is a genus of aquatic plants. It includes three living species widespread across Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. The genus "has an extensive Oligocene through Pleistocene fossil record in Eurasia," and has been found in fossil strata of the United States (Idaho and Vermont) as well. Ten fossil species have been described for the genus.
==Taxonomy== The genus name of Caldesia is in honour of Ludovico (Luigi) Caldesi (1821 - 1884), an Italian politician and botanist.
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