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Answer for the clue "Small genus of aquatic or semiaquatic plants ", 6 letters:
alisma

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Alisma is a genus of flowering plants in the family Alismataceae , members of which are commonly known as water-plantains . The genus consists of aquatic plants with leaves either floating or submerged, found in a variety of still water habitats around ...

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Fritz Müller has described* the spontaneous revolving movements of the flowerstems of an Alisma, which he compares with those of a climbing plant.