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| has gloss | (noun) one species of aquatic plant: golden club Orontium, genus Orontium |
| has gloss | eng: Orontium is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the Araceae family. The single species in the genus is Orontium aquaticum. This species is endemic to eastern North America and is found growing in ponds, streams, and shallow lakes. It prefers an acidic environment. The leaves are pointed and oval with a water repellent surface. The inflorescence is most notable for having an extremely small almost indistinguishable sheath surrounding the spadix. Very early in the flowering this green sheath withers away leaving only the spadix. The sheath was originally classified by Adolf Engler as a spathe due it being the last foliar piece before the spadix. He also noted that species lacked a sympodial leaf. However, in a 1988 paper by Thomas Ray, he argued that the structure was misidentified by Engler and was actually a sympodial leaf. |
| lexicalization | eng: genus Orontium |
| lexicalization | eng: Orontium |
| subclass of | (noun) genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed liliopsid genus, monocot genus |
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| French | |
| has gloss | fra: Orontium aquaticum est une espèce de plante aquatique de la famille des Araceae. Cest la seule espèce acceptée à lheure actuelle du genre Orontium. |
| lexicalization | fra: Orontium aquaticum |
| Portuguese | |
| has gloss | por: Orontium L. é um género botânico pertencente à família Araceae. |
| lexicalization | por: Orontium |
| Castilian | |
| has gloss | spa: Orontium es un género monotípico de plantas con flores perteneciente a la familia Araceae. |
| lexicalization | spa: Orontium |
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| media:img | Orontium aquaticum 2 - Buffalo Botanical Gardens.jpg |
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