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Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms

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(Mart.) Solms
Mart.
Solms
1883
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Eichhornia crassipes

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Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms

Free-floating aquatic with many long purple feathery roots which may anchor the plant in mud around edges of ponds, streams, etc.; stolons many, thick, fleshy, radiating in all directions, producing leafy tufts which readily separate and form new plants. Leaves bright green, smooth, leathery; laminae to 8 cm wide, ovate to orbicular, many-nerved; petiole usually inflated below, spongy and bladder-like. Flowers to 7 cm diam., bluish-purple, 8-10, spirally arranged in a terminal spike; scape to ± 20 cm high with leaf-like bract; tube green; lobes blue-purple, uppermost widest with a deeper blotch containing a bright yellow spot. Capsule membranous, 3-celled, many-seeded, enclosed in withered perianth. Seeds small, ovoid, ribbed.

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Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms
Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms
Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms
Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms
Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms
Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms
Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms
Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms-Laub.
Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms
Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms
Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms
Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms
Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms
Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms-Laub.
Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms
Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms
Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms
Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms

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Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms
Cook Islands
Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms
New Zealand
Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
17 July 2023
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