Centrolepis
Centrolepis banksii
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An extremely small wetland herb native to Australia and Southeast Asia, recorded very rarely in the Ryukyu Islands (Ogasawara Islands, etc.) of Japan. The flowers are extremely simplified, and the leaves are filiform.
Identification Points
- ✓Extremely small wetland herb
- ✓Leaves filiform and very slender
- ✓Flowers highly simplified, enclosed in bracts
Habitat
Wetlands and rice paddies of the Ryukyu and Ogasawara Islands (extremely rare)
Season
Spring–Summer (flowers)
Morphological TraitsAI-estimated, needs verification
Growth form
Herb
Habitat
Wetland
Leaf arrangement
Alternate
Leaf type
Simple
Venation
Parallel
Leaf dissection
Undivided
Ovary position
Superior
Plant sex
Monoecious
Phylogenetic Positionホソバノイグサ科 →
Phylogenetic Position
Angiosperms > Monocots > Poales > Centrolepidaceae
Divergence Era
Paleogene to Neogene
Evolution Notes
Centrolepidaceae is a small family within Poales, a specialized monocot group with extremely simplified and reduced floral structures.
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