Description ²

Perennials, aquatic. Aerial stems with sessile glands or pilose or nearly smooth and glabrous. Submerged leaves to 50 cm, multiparted; segments capillary. Aerial leaves opposite or whorled, sessile, oblong, ca. 15 X 3 mm, glabrous, base subamplexicaul, margin subcrenate; veins 3-5, parallel. Flowers sessile and in terminal spikes or short pedicellate and solitary in leaf axils. Bracteoles absent. Calyx ca. 3 mm, with sessile glands, without raised veins in fruit. Corolla pale purple, ca. 5 mm, glabrous. Capsule pale brown, subglobose, ca. 2.5 mm. Fl. Jul.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Ruppia2000, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Fig._05_Limnophila_heterophylla.jpg
2. (c) Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/4986992

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• World Flora Online

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