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Internal ID UUID64402243ea8b3841086291
Scientific name Sagittaria papillosa
Authority Buchenau
First published in Index Crit. Butom. Alism. Juncag. : 27 (1868)

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The flowers are white, with three petals and three sepals. The fruit is a three-valved capsule containing many small seeds.

Sagittaria papillosa, commonly known as the nipplebract arrowhead, is a perennial herb native to the south-central United States. It grows in wet places such as marshes and the banks of lakes and slow-moving streams, and can reach up to 120 cm in height. Its petioles are triangular in cross-section and its leaf blade is very narrowly elliptical to ovate. The species is distinguished by having bumps (papillae) resembling nipples on the flower bracts, and its flowers are white with three petals and three sepals. The fruit is a three-valved capsule containing many small seeds.

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Sagittaria lancifolia var. papillosa (Buchenau) Micheli Monogr. Phan. 3: 74 (1881)

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English nipplebract arrowhead
Arabic سهم الماء الفراشي

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  • Northern America
    • North-central U.S.A.
      • Oklahoma
    • South-central U.S.A.
      • Texas
    • Southeastern U.S.A.
      • Alabama
      • Louisiana

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000738039
USDA Plants SAPA2
Tropicos 900241
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:58545-1
The Plant List kew-287451
Open Tree Of Life 107493
Observations.org 412142
NCBI Taxonomy 353116
Nature Serve 2.132441
IPNI 58545-1
iNaturalist 168299
GBIF 5328880
Freebase /m/010f5w6x
EOL 1082269
Elurikkus 517412
USDA GRIN 454826
Wikipedia Sagittaria_papillosa

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Palm seed and fruit lipid composition: phylogenetic and ecological perspectives Guerin C, Serret J, Montúfar R, Vaissayre V, Bastos-Siqueira A, Durand-Gasselin T, Tregear J, Morcillo F, Dussert S Ann Bot 26-Oct-2019
PMCID:PMC7080222
doi:10.1093/aob/mcz175
PMID:31665224

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