Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Nymphaeales > Cabombaceae > Brasenia > Brasenia schreberi

Brasenia schreberi (schreber watershield; watershield)

Synonyms:

Wikipedia Abstract

Brasenia is a genus belonging to the family Cabombaceae, consisting of one extant species, Brasenia schreberi. It is widely distributed in North America, the West Indies, northern South America (Venezuela, Guyana), eastern Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Primorye), Australia, the Indian Subcontinent, and parts of Africa.
View Wikipedia Record: Brasenia schreberi

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Beetles, Wind
Structure [2]  Herb
Usage [1]  The plant has phytotoxic properties that allow it to inhibit the growth of other plants nearby and therefore allow it to become dominant. This gives it a potential for the natural control of invasive water weeds;
Height [1]  3.937 inches (0.1 m)
Width [1]  6.56 feet (2 m)
View Plants For A Future Record : Brasenia schreberi

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Eastern Coastal Australia Australia Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Coastal Rivers    
Okavango Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Floodplain Rivers and Wetland Complexes    

Protected Areas

Predators

Agelaius phoeniceus (Red-winged Blackbird)[3]
Aix sponsa (Wood Duck)[3]
Anas platyrhynchos (Mallard)[3]
Aythya collaris (Ring-necked Duck)[3]
Quiscalus major (Boat-tailed Grackle)[3]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0