Trapa
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Trapa is a genus of floating annual aquatic plants in the Lythraceae family. A well-known species in the genus is Trapa natans, grown as a food crop in China and the Indian subcontinent.
Evolution
Fossil record
The genus Trapa has an extensive fossil record, with numerous, distinctive species. Undisputed fossilized seeds have been found in Cenozoic strata starting from the Eocene throughout Europe, China and North America (though the genus became extinct in North America prior to the Pleistocene).[1] The oldest known fossils attributed to the genus are of leaves from Cretaceous Alaska, referred to the species, T. borealis.[2]
Taxonomy
The genus Trapa and its type species T. natans were named by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus in his Species Plantarum in 1753.[3] The generic name Trapa is derived from a late Latin word for a caltrop, Script error: No such module "Lang"., an area denial weapon.[4] The specific name natans is the Latin for swimming or floating, from the verb nato, "I swim". As of 2023, there are eight recognised species, T. assamica, T. hankensis, T. hyrcana, T. incisa, T. kashmirensis, T. kozhevnikoviorum , T. natans, and T. nedoluzhkoi.[3][5]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Torreya". Torrey Botanical Club. August 3, 1912 – via Google Books.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hollick, Charles Arthur (1936). The Tertiary floras of Alaska, Issues 181–184. United States Government Print Office. p. 156.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Trapa Linnaeus, 1753". IRMNG. Retrieved 6 December 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Palm, Natalie; Franzaring, Jürgen; Schweiger, Andreas H. (2024). "International Biological Flora: Trapa natans †: No. 5". Journal of Ecology. 112 (10): 2386–2420. Bibcode:2024JEcol.112.2386P. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.14372.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Trapa natans var. bispinosa (Lythraceae)". Botanica Wichita. 16 July 2025. Retrieved 6 December 2025.
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