WorldFloraDB - Blyxa echinosperma

Characteristics

Stems shortened. Leaves all in basal rosette, strap-shaped, 10-20(-40) cm × 4-7 mm, veins 7-9, apex acuminate. Spathes green, 2-5 cm × ca. 2 mm, with slender peduncle 2-12 cm. Flowers bisexual. Sepals green, linear, ca. 6 × 1 mm. Petals 1-1.4 cm × 0.5-0.8 mm. Stamens 3, 4-6 mm. Ovary narrowly cylindric, 3-7 cm; styles 0.6-1.5 cm. Fruit 4-7 cm. Seeds 30-50, fusiform or oblong-fusiform, 1.5-2 × ca. 0.8 mm, with filiform projections or ridges 2-12 mm from each end, and with prominently acute spines on surface. Fl. and fr. Jun-Oct. 2n = 42.

More

An annual underwater plant. It has runners or stolons. The leaves are like ribbons. They narrow at the end and have an easy to see midrib and veins which run along the leaf. Leaves are 2.5-60 cm long and 0.2-1.2 cm wide. The bract around the flowers is 2-12 cm long and forms a cylinder. There is one or two flowers like stalks. They form tubes. The fruit is 2-8 cm long and 0.5 cm wide. There are many seeds inside. These are 1-2 mm long.

Life form

perennial

Growth form

herb

Growth support

aquatic

Foliage retention

-

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

-

Spread

-

Mature width (meter)

-

Mature height (meter)

0.1 - 0.4

Root system

-

Rooting depth (meter)

-

Root diameter (meter)

-

Flower color

Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

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Fruiting months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Nitrogen fixer

-

Photosynthetic pathway

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Environment

A tropical plant. It grows in still or slow moving fresh water. It grows in paddy fields and channels. In Sichuan.

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Soil humidity
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Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

The young leaves are crisp and served with fermented fish.

Uses	fodder
Edible	leaves
Therapeutic use	-
Human toxicity	-
Animal toxicity	-

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings.

Mode	cuttings
Germination duration (days)	-
Germination temperacture (C°)	-
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Optimum temperature (C°)	-
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Distribution

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:431625-1
WFO ID	wfo-0000770603
COL ID	M7S8
BDTFX ID	-
INPN ID	-
Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Hydrotrophus echinospermus Blyxa lancifolia Blyxa somai Blyxa delavayi Blyxa echinosperma Blyxa echinospermoides Blyxa talbotii Blyxa bicaudata Blyxa ceratosperma Blyxa shimadai Blyxa aubertii var. echinosperma

WorldFloraDB 2024

Blyxa echinosperma Hook.F.

Species

Angiosperms > Alismatales > Hydrocharitaceae > Blyxa