Compilation
Alisma kotschyi

Petioles 25–50 cm., triangular in section; leaf-blade obovate in the seedling stage (which sometimes flowers and bears fruit) 3.5 × 1.5 cm.; mature leaves sagittate, 6–9 cm. measured along the midrib, 8–13 cm. wide on a level with the petiole apex; lobes 7–11 cm. long with the angle between them more than 90°; nerves 13–17; blade and petiole glabrous, rarely slightly pubescent or scabrid at the petiole apex. Peduncle as long as the petioles; inflorescence of 5–7 whorls; bracts glabrous, triangular, 1–2 × 1 cm., with rounded apex; bracteoles 3–6, glabrous, about 3 mm. long; basal whorl with 6–10 hermaphrodite flowers, 0–2 ♂ flowers; pedicels 2–4 cm. long, slender in ♂ flowers, but thickened to 1–2 mm. in diameter and much recurved in fruit. Sepals about 6 × 3.5 mm. in hermaphrodite flowers, 4 × 2 mm. in ♂ flowers. Petals delicate. Stamens 6; filaments 2 mm. long; anthers oblong, 1 mm. long; stamens much smaller in the hermaphrodite flowers. Carpels 2 mm. long; style 0.5 mm. long. Achenes ovoid, 4 × 3 mm., shortly stalked, reticulately ridged, rough-textured, pale brown. Fig. 5/1–5, p. 10.