Indian Swamp flower ( Latin: Nymphoídes índica ) is an aquatic herbaceous plant , a species of the genus Swamp flower ( Nymphoides ) of the Rotational family ( Menyanthaceae ).
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Botanical Description
Perennial aquatic freely floating herbaceous plant . The stems are thin, with 1-3 spaced leaves. Leaves 5-50 cm in diameter, rounded heart-shaped or ovoid-rounded in outline, whole-edge, deeply heart-shaped at the base, with palmate venation, densely glandular on the underside. Petioles up to 2 cm long, descending on the stem, forming ears.
The flowers are white, yellow in the middle, up to 2.5 cm across. Pedicels 3-10 cm long. Calyx lobes broadly lanceolate, blunt, 4-6 mm long. The corolla is sparsely carnate, usually five-lobed, its lobes on the inside with long well-marked hairs.
Fruits - oblong capsules 3-5 mm long, not protruding from the calyx. Seeds about 0.8 mm across, almost spherical, smooth, shiny, gray-brown.
Distribution
Currently, the plant has a pantropic range, the origin of the plant has not been established. It is easily spread by leaves dying from stems, giving rise to new plants.
Taxonomy and taxonomy
Synonyms
- Limnanthemum calycinum Miq. , 1857
- Limnanthemum ecklonianum Griseb. , 1839
- Limnanthemum esquirolii H.Lév. , 1914
- Limnanthemum fraserianum Griseb., 1839
- Limnanthemum humboldtianum ( Kunth ) Griseb., 1839
- Limnanthemum indicum ( L. ) Griseb., 1839
- Limnanthemum kleinianum griseb ., 1839
- Limnanthemum orbiculatum ( Lam. ) Griseb., 1839
- Limnanthemum wightianum Griseb., 1839
- Menyanthes brasilica Vell. , 1829
- Menyanthes indica L., 1753 basionym
- Menyanthes macrophylla Roth ex Roem. & Schult. , 1819
- Menyanthes meridionalis Willd. ex Griseb., 1839
- Menyanthes petioliflora Stokes , 1812
- Nymphoides eckloniana (Griseb.) Kuntze, 1891
- Nymphoides humboldtiana (Kunth) Kuntze , 1891
- Nymphoides orbiculata (Lam.) Kuntze, 1891
- Trachysperma humboldtiana (Kunth) House , 1921
- Villarsia communis A.St.-Hil. , 1833
- Villarsia eglandulosa Griff. , 1848
- Villarsia glandulosa Griff., 1854
- Villarsia humboldtiana Kunth, 1819
- Villarsia indica (L.) Vent. , 1803
- Villarsia nymphaeifolia C. Fraser , 1830
- Villarsia orbiculata Lam., 1791
- Villarsia platiphylla A. St. -Hil., 1833
- Villarsia rheedei Kostel. , 1834
- Villarsia simsii G. Don , 1837
- Villarsia swartzii G. Don , 1837
- Villarsia trachysperma F. Muell . , 1868
Notes
- ↑ For the conventionality of specifying the class of dicotyledons as a superior taxon for the plant group described in this article, see the APG Systems section of the Dicotyledonous article .
Literature
- Ohwi, J. Flora of Japan. - Washington, DC, 1965. - P. 742.