In honour of the lushlets birthday.......I would now like to hijack this thread to talk about something with no relevance wotsoever to the title...........
The water stalworts (Callitrichaceae) are a difficult group. Their leaf shape varies with the prescence or depth of water, and the ripe fruit, often needed for identification, sometimes being hard to find.
Leaves opposite, oval or rhomboid to linear, often forming a rosette on the surface of wet mud. Fruits usually brown, more or less rounded and globular, not or scarecly stalked, the styles spreading or erect and the mericarps winged.
They are here arranged in three groups suggested by the Dutch botanist H.D. Schotsman.
Thank you ladies and gentlemen and good night
Comment