Ranalisma

{{Short description|Genus of plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Ranalisma rostrata IP.png |image_caption = ''Ranalisma rostrata'' |taxon = Ranalisma |authority = Stapf |type_species = ''Ranalisma rostrata'' |type_species_authority = Stapf |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = See text }}

'''''Ranalisma''''' is a genus in the family Alismataceae.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Jackson|first=Hooker, William|last2=Dalton|first2=Hooker, Joseph|date=1901-01-01|title=Icones plantarum|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16516852#page/129/mode/1up|language=en|volume=v.27 (1901)|publisher=Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, etc.}}</ref> It includes two species; one from tropical Africa (''R. humile'') and the other (''R. rostrata)'' from southeast Asia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=286882|title=World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|website=apps.kew.org|language=en-GB|access-date=2017-01-30}}</ref>

''Ranalisma rostrata'' is a critically endangered marsh species, and is included in the list of China national level I key protection plants. After the introduction of breeding programs in China the population has been increasing.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=SHI |first=Congguang |last2=LI |first2=Haoming |last3=QIU |first3=Janxi |date=2021 |title=Nutritional components of rhizome and leaf of Ranalisma rostratum and its acute oral toxicity |url=https://doi.org/10.11833/j.issn.2095-0756.20200813 |journal=Journal of Zhejiang A&F University |volume=38 |issue=6 |pages=1170-1177}}</ref>

==Species==

* ''Ranalisma humile'' <small>(Rich. ex Kunth) Hutch. in J.Hutchinson & J.M.Dalziel</small> - from Senegal to Tanzania, south to Zambia and Angola * ''Ranalisma rostrata'' <small>Stapf.</small> - China (Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang), Vietnam, Malaysia, India

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Ranalisma Category:Alismataceae genera