See text Baldellia is a genus of aquatic plants commonly known as lesser water-plantains.

It includes three species found across much of Europe and the Mediterranean from Ireland and the Canary Islands to Turkey and Estonia.

[1][2] The genus is named in honor of the Italian nobleman Bartolommeo Bartolini-Baldelli.

Flowers hermaphrodite, in 1 – 3 whorls in umbels or racemes, or long-pedunculate in leaf-axils.

Carpels numerous, spirally arranged in a globose head, free, each with 1 ovule; styles apical.