Biology:Hydrocharis

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Hydrocharis is a genus of aquatic plants in the family Hydrocharitaceae described as a genus by Carl Linnaeus in 1753.[1][2] Species range across much of Europe and Asia, northwestern and central Africa, New Guinea, and the Americas from the eastern and central United States to Argentina and Chile.[3][4][5][6] Species are naturalized in parts of California, northeastern North America, southern tropical Africa, and Australia.[3][7][8][9]

The best known species is Hydrocharis morsus-ranae, commonly called common frogbit or European frog's-bit, and occasionally water-poppy.

Species

Five species are accepted.[3]

  • Hydrocharis chevalieri (De Wild.) Dandy – Benin, Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Hydrocharis dubia (Blume) Backer – Primorsky Krai, China, Japan, Korea, Indian subcontinent, SE Asia, New Guinea
  • Hydrocharis laevigata (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Byng & Christenh. – smooth or South American frogbit; Mexico through Central and South America to Argentina and Chile
  • Hydrocharis morsus-ranae L. – common or European frogbit; Europe, Siberia, North Africa, Turkey, Caucasus, Kazakhstan
  • Hydrocharis spongia Bosc – American frogbit; central and eastern United States

References

  1. ↑ Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 2: 1036 in Latin
  2. ↑ "Tropicos | Name - !Hydrocharis L.". http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40028879. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named powo
  4. ↑ "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew" (in en). http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=308123. 
  5. ↑ "Hydrocharis morsus-ranae [Morso di rana"] (in it). http://luirig.altervista.org/flora/taxa/index1.php?scientific-name=hydrocharis+morsus-ranae. 
  6. ↑ "Hydrocharis in Flora of China @ efloras.org". http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=115986. 
  7. ↑ "Hydrocharis in Flora of North America @ efloras.org". http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=115986. 
  8. ↑ Cook, C. D. K. and R. Lüönd. 1982. A revision of the genus Hydrocharis (Hydrocharitaceae). Aquatic Botany 14: 177--204.
  9. ↑ Roberts, M. L., R. L. Stuckey, and R. S. Mitchell. 1981. Hydrocharis morsus-ranae (Hydrocharitaceae) new to the United States. Rhodora 83: 147--148.
  • Data related to Hydrocharis at Wikispecies

Wikidata ☰ Q158871 entry



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