Proserpinaca

• Authority

  Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

• Family

  Haloragaceae

• Scientific Name

  Proserpinaca

• Description

  Description - Aquatic herbs. Leaves alternate, lanceolate, dentate or pectinate-pinnatifid. Flowers perfect, axillary. Tube of the calyx adnate to the triquetrous ovary, the limb 3 4-parted. Petals none. Stamens 3 or 4. Styles 3 or 4, cylindric or conic-subulate, stigmatic above the middle. Fruit bony, 3-4-eelled, with 1 seed in each cavity. [Middle Latin, forward-creeping.] Four known species of North and Central America and the West Indies. Type species: Proserpinaea palustris L