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|accepted_name=Bergia
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mant. Pl.
|place=2: 152, 241. 1771
|year=1771
}}
|common_names=Water-fire
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Elatinaceae;Bergia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Elatinaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Bergia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Peter J. Bergius, 1730–1790, Swedish botanist and physician, student of Linnaeus
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 348
|treatment_page=page 349
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>[subshrubs], terrestrial [aquatic], glandular-pubescent. <b>Stems</b> ascending to prostrate, solid or pithy, not rooting at nodes [rooting at proximal nodes]. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules nearly membranous; petiole present; blade margins serrulate. <b>Inflorescences</b> usually cymes, rarely flowers solitary. <b>Pedicels</b> present. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 5, distinct, equal, carinate, apex acuminate or acute; petals 5, apex acute; stamens (5 or 7–)10; pistil 5-carpellate; ovary 5-locular, apex ± acute; styles 5; stigmas 5. <b>Capsules</b> cartilaginous. <b>Seeds</b> 3–6[–10] per locule, brown, slightly curved, surface obscurely reticulate with rectangular pits. <b>x</b> = 6.</span><!--

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|distribution=w;c United States;n Mexico;Asia;Africa;Australia;introduced in South America;warm-temperate and tropical regions.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 25 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Bergia</i> has its greatest diversity in Africa and Australia.</p>
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name=Bergia
|author=Gordon C. Tucker
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Elatinaceae
|distribution=w;c United States;n Mexico;Asia;Africa;Australia;introduced in South America;warm-temperate and tropical regions.
|reference=None
|publication title=Mant. Pl.
|publication year=1771
|special status=
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_649.xml
|genus=Bergia
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