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Caldesia parnassifolia

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Identification
Caldesia reniformis (D.Don) Makino [family ALISMATACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Dandy, J.W., Caldesia parnassifolia (L.) Parl. [family ALISMATACEAE ] Eichornia natans Solnes [family ALISMATACEAE ] Monocharia unrecorded unrecorded [family ALISMATACEAE ]
Related name
  • Caldesia unrecorded
  • Caldesia parnassifolia
  • Eichornia natans
  • Caldesia reniformis
  • Monocharia unrecorded

Flora

Entry for CALDESIA reniformis (D. Don) Makino [family ALISMATACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1960) Author: Susan Carter
Names
CALDESIA reniformis (D. Don) Makino [family ALISMATACEAE], in Bot. Mag. Tokyo 20: 34 (1906). Type: Nepal, Wallich (K,? iso.!)
Alisma reniforme D. Don [family ALISMATACEAE], Fl. Nepal: 22 (1825)
Alisma parnassifolium Micheli var. majus [family ALISMATACEAE], in DC., Mon. Phan. 3: 36 (1881). Type: Nepal, Wallich (K,? iso.!)
Caldesia parnassifolia (Micheli) Buchen. var. major [family ALISMATACEAE], in E.P. IV. 15: 16 (1903)
Caldesia parnassifolia Buchen. var. nilotica [family ALISMATACEAE], in E.P. IV. 15: 16 (1903). Type: Sudan, Bahr el Ghazal region, Schweinfurth 1166 and ser. III. 222 (K, syn.!)
Information
Leaf-blade broadly ovate, 5–9 × 5.5–12 cm.; apex rounded or broadly obtuse; base deeply cordate; nerves 13–17, radiating from the apex of the petiole. Peduncle 4–7 dm. high; inflorescence with 4–8 whorls, the lowest always of branches; bracts oblong-lanceolate, the lowest about 1 cm. long, thickened; bracteoles much shorter, membranous; flowers sometimes replaced by vegetative buds; pedicels 1–4 cm. long. Sepals spreading, broadly ovate, 4 × 3 mm. Petals delicate, a little larger than the sepals. Stamens 6; filaments 1.5–2 mm. long, flattened and broadened at the base; anthers broad, nearly 1 mm. long. Carpels 10–15, ovate, 1 mm. long; style slightly hooked, 1 mm. long. Achenes about 8, with a spongy exocarp (not usually evident in dried material) and hard endocarp with 5–9 longitudinal ridges, 3 mm. long. Fig. 4, p. 8.
Range
DISTR. U4; T2 widespread, but not common, from India, Malaysia, China and Japan to Australia, Madagascar, tropical and North Africa
Altitude range
1125–1170 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Arusha District Lake Balbal [Duluti], Uhlig 512 †UGANDA Mengo District Nambigiluwa swamp, Entebbe, Nov. 1932, Eggeling 700!UGANDA King’s Lake, Kampala, Jan. 1936, Hancock & Chandler 136!
Notes
This species is closely related to the European C. parnassifolia (Bassi) Parl., which is smaller in all its parts, has a simpler inflorescence and a leaf with an obtuse apex and fewer nerves.

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