Biology:Limnocharis

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Limnocharis
Limnocharis flava HabitusFlower BotGardBln0906.jpg
Limnocharis flava
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Alismataceae
Genus: Limnocharis
Humb. & Bonpl.[1]

Limnocharis is a genus of plants in the family Alismataceae, native to Mexico, Central America, the West Indies and South America) but naturalized in China , India , and Southeast Asia as well. Two species are recognized as of May 2014:[2]

  • Limnocharis flava (L.) Buchenau[3] - most of generic range
  • Limnocharis laforestii Duchass. ex Griseb[4] - from Mexico to Argentina

References

  1. Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt & Aime Jacques Alexandre Bonpland. 1807. Plantae Aequinoctiales 1: 116
  2. "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew" (in en-GB). http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=280174. 
  3. Buchenau, Franz Georg Philipp. 1869. Abhandlungen herausgegeben vom Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereine zu Bremen 2: 2,4.
  4. Berthold, Seemann; G., Seemann, Wilhelm E.; Naturforscher., Kaiserlich Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Deutsche Akademie der (1858-01-01) (in en). Bonplandia.. j.6 (1858). C. Rmpler.. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4867872#page/23/mode/1up. 

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