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Aquatic herbs. Leaf lamina elliptic to subcircular, deeply cordate, peltate. Sepals 4, green. Petals 5-many, inner ones shorter and narrower, grading into the stamens. Stamens with petaloid filaments. Carpels numerous, many-ovulate. Fruit a large fleshy berry, ripening under water. Seeds floating owing to a pulpy sack-like aril. Worldwide: c. 50 species, cosmopolitan. Burundi: 3 taxa. The larvae of the following species of insect eat species of this genus:
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| Species | Content | |
| lotus L. | Description, Image | |
| maculata Schumach. & Thonn. | ||
| nouchali Burm.f.[Agg] |
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