Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms
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Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms (1883)
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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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1 January 2000
17 July 2023