Species
Four species are accepted. * ''Albidella acanthocarpa'' * ''Albidella glandulosa'' * ''Albidella nymphaeifolia'' * ''Albidella oligococca''Etymology
''Albidella'' is a List of taxa named by anagrams, taxonomic anagram derived from the name of the :wikt:confamilial, confamilial genus ''Baldellia''. The latter name is a Patronym (taxonomy)#Naming process, taxonomic patronym honoring the Italian nobleman Bartolommeo Bartoloni-Baldelli.Description
This genus markedly differs from ''Echinodorus'' by a typical paniculate inflorescence shaped as a regular pyramid. Flowering stalk is 40 – 50 cm tall, inflorescence up to 12 – 20 cm long, flowers arranged in 2 - 6 Whorl (botany), whorls, bracts of the lower whorl reach a length of 2.5 – 4 cm and a width of 0.5 - 0.8 cm, bracts in further whorls being only 2 – 5 mm long. Corolla white, stamens usually 9. Compound fruit comprises maximum 20 achenes, each 1.4 - 1.6 mm long x 1 mm wide with a broad crested keel and with crested ribs and 1 or 2 long glands on each face, beak 0.2 mm long.Pichon, Marcel. 1946. Notulae Systematicae. Herbier du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, Phanérogramie, 12: 174-175References
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