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Nymphoides rautaneni (N.E.Br.) A.Raynal

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Menyanthaceae > Nymphoides

Characteristics

Annual, rarely perennial herb, hydrophyte. Leaves soft, glaucous green. Flowers 25-38 cm a glomerule, attached to leaf sinus, small, 8-10 mm in diameter. Capsule globose. Flowers yellow.
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Corolla yellow less than 10 mm. long, lobes villous at margins and along midvein inside, tube 1.5–2 mm. long, lobes 4–7 mm. long.
Annual sometimes perennial; floating stolons numerous; stems and petioles 1–3 mm. thick in life.
Seeds 1.3–1.6 mm. long, lenticular, finely lenticular or tuberculate.
Capsule 5–7 mm. in diam., globose, exceeding the calyx, 10–15 seeded.
Flowers (5)10–15 homostylous; pedicels 0.5–2.5(3) cm. long, slender.
Petiole 3–6 cm. long; lamina 3–5(11) cm. in diam., circular.
Calyx c. 3 mm. long.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Nymphoides rautaneni world distribution map, present in Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:581706-1
WFO ID wfo-0000382352
COL ID 74D4J
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Synonyms

Limnanthemum rautanenii Nymphoides rautaneni
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