Family CN: Water-plantain Family Family Code: ALISMA Family Authority: Ventenat 1799 Summary: A family of about 13 genera and 80 species, herbs, subcosmopolitan in distribution. Here including the Limnocharitaceae. Reference: Haynes & Hellquist in FNA (2000); Haynes in FNA (2000); Rogers (1983); Haynes, Les, & Holm-Nielsen in Kubitzki (1998b); Lehtonen & Myllys (2008); Lehtonen (2008). Last Updated: 2019-12-21 Publish: 1