# Burnatia

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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
{{speciesbox
|status = LC
|status_system = IUCN3.1
|status_ref = <ref name=iucn>{{Cite iucn |title=''Burnatia enneandra'' |author=Ali, M., Ghogue, J.-P. & Lansdown, R.V. |name-list-style=amp |article-number=e.T185704A120123512 |date=2018 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T185704A120123512.en |access-date=5 June 2024}}</ref>
| genus = Burnatia
| image =
| image_caption = ''Burnatia enneandra''
| parent_authority = 
| species = enneandra
| authority = [Micheli](/source/Marc_Micheli) ''in'' [A.DC.](/source/Alphonse_Pyramus_de_Candolle) & [C.DC.](/source/Anne_Casimir_Pyrame_de_Candolle)
| synonyms_ref = <ref name="rosatlatilpa"/>
| synonyms = *''Alisma enneandrum'' <small>Hochst. ''ex'' Micheli ''in'' A.DC. & C.DC.</small>
*''Echinodorus schinzii'' <small>Buchenau</small>
*''Rautanenia schinzii'' <small>(Buchenau) Buchenau</small>
*''Nemopotalon schinzii'' <small>(Buchenau) Buchenau</small>
*''Burnatia schinzii'' <small>(Buchenau) Buchenau</small>
*''Burnatia alismatoides'' <small>Peter</small>
*''Burnatia oblonga'' <small>Peter</small>
*''Burnatia alismatoides'' var. ''elliptica'' <small>Peter</small>
*''Burnatia enneandra ''var''. linearis'' <small>Peter</small>
}}

'''''Burnatia''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) in the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Alismataceae](/source/Alismataceae). It includes only one currently recognized [species](/source/species), '''''Burnatia enneandra'''''. It is native to tropical and southern Africa from [Senegal](/source/Senegal) to [Tanzania](/source/Tanzania) to [South Africa](/source/South_Africa).<ref name="rosatlatilpa">{{Cite web|url=http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=301518|title=World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|website=apps.kew.org|language=en-GB|access-date=2017-01-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=de|first1=Candolle, Alphonse|last2=de|first2=Candolle, Casimir|date=1881-01-01|title=Monographiæ phanerogamarum|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32081020#page/84/mode/1up|language=en|volume=3}}</ref> Among genera of the Alismataceae, it can be distinguished by not having a differentiated perianth (in ''Burnatia'' the petals are reduced), and being [dioecious](/source/dioecious), with male and female flowers on separate individuals. Male flowers have 6 to 9 stamens and female flowers have many carpels and up to 2 staminodia.<ref>{{cite book|doi=10.1007/978-3-662-03531-3_4|chapter=Alismataceae|title=Flowering Plants · Monocotyledons|year=1998|last1=Haynes|first1=R. R.|last2=Les|first2=D. H.|last3=Holm-Nielsen|first3=L. B.|pages=11–18|isbn=978-3-642-08378-5}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.tropicos.org/Image/100170181 photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in Nubia (Ethiopia) in 1837; isotype of ''Burnatia enneandra'' ]
*[http://www.westafricanplants.senckenberg.de/root/index.php?page_id=14&id=247 West African Plants, a photo guide ''Burnatia enneandra'']
*[http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=103230 Flora of Zimbabwe ''Burnatia enneandra'']
*[http://www.jircas.affrc.go.jp/project/Ghana/contents/botanical_pages/burnatia_enneandra_jp.html Plants in Lowland Savannah of West Africa, ''Burnatia enneandra'' ]

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Category:Alismataceae
Category:Alismataceae genera
Category:Monotypic Alismatales genera
Category:Dioecious plants

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