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Eichhornia diversifolia

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Isotype of Heteranthera grandiflora Klotzsch [family PONTEDERIACEAE]
Filed as Eichhornia diversifolia (Vahl) Urb. [family PONTEDERIACEAE]
Eichhornia diversifolia (Vahl) Urb. [family PONTEDERIACEAE]
Isotype of Eichhornia pauciflora Seub. [family PONTEDERIACEAE]
Heteranthera grandiflora Klotzsch [family PONTEDERIACEAE]
Isotype of Eichhornia pauciflora Seub. [family PONTEDERIACEAE]
Eichhornia diversifolia (Vahl) Urb. [family PONTEDERIACEAE]
Eichhornia diversifolia (Vahl) Urb. [family PONTEDERIACEAE]
Holotype of Eichhornia diversifolia (Vahl) Urb. [family PONTEDERIACEAE]
Filed as Eichhornia diversifolia (Vahl) Urb. [family PONTEDERIACEAE]
Isotype of Eichhornia pauciflora Seub. [family PONTEDERIACEAE]
Isotype of Heteranthera grandiflora Klotzsch [family PONTEDERIACEAE]
Isotype of Eichhornia pauciflora Seub. [family PONTEDERIACEAE]
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Identification
Isotype of Eichhornia pauciflora Seub. [family PONTEDERIACEAE ] Eichhornia diversifolia (Vahl) Urb. [family PONTEDERIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Horn,C.N.,
Related name
  • Heteranthera grandiflora
  • Eichhornia diversifolia
  • Heteranthera cordata
  • Eichhornia pauciflora
  • Eichhornia natans

Flora

Entry for Eichhornia natans (P. Beauv.) Solms-Laub. [family PONTEDERIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 3, Part 1,
Names
Eichhornia natans (P. Beauv.) Solms-Laub. [family PONTEDERIACEAE], in Abh. nuturw. ver.Bremen 7: 254 (1882); F.T.A. 8: 4; Chev. Bot. 659; Sousa in Anais Junta Inv.Col. 5: 56 (1950); Berhaut, Fl. Sén. 179.
Pontederia natans P. Beauv. [family PONTEDERIACEAE], (1810)
Eichhornia diversifolia [family PONTEDERIACEAE], of Troupin in FlSpermParc NatGaramba 1: 177, fig26 (1956), not of (Vahl) Urb.
Information
Aquatic herb with floating upper leaves; flowers purplish with yellow spot; in pools and streams.
Habitat
; in pools and streams.
Range
Extends in savanna to Sudan, Uganda, Congo, Zambia, Rhodesia, Angola and. S.W. Africa;
Distribution
Sen.: Diohine (Sept.) Berhaut 562! St. Louis Leprieur!Gam.: Bansang Duke 2!Mali: Bamako Waterlot 1052! Gao de Wailly 4857! Tabacco Chev. 123!Port. G.: Pussubé, Bissau Esp. Santo 1101.Guin.: Kouria Caille in Hb. Chev. 14664! 14927!S. L.: Falaba (Feb.) Sc. Elliot 5290! Mange (Dec.) Jones 57! Kasawa F.R. (Jan.) King 211! Njala (Nov.) Deighton 2815! Gegbwema to Faiama Pyne 30!Lib.: Vonjama (Oct.) Baldwin 9913! Yila, St. John R. (Aug.) Baldwin 9132! Gbanga Linder 379! Salala (Aug.) Baldwin 13218! Ganta (June) Harley 596!Iv. C.: Alangouassou to Mbayakro Chev. 22242! Soukourougban (Apr.) Aké Assi 8748!U. Volta: Fada Chev. 24491!Ghana: Ada to Dawa (Dec.) Adams 3614! Pong-Tamale (Dec.) Akpabla FH 452! Yendi (Nov.) Thorold 270! Bimbila (Apr.) Akpabla FH 1852!N. Nig.: Nupe Barter! Zungeru (Sept.) Dalz. 273!S. Nig.: Iseyin to Shaki, Oyo Prov. (Nov.) Hambler 377!
Distribution (external)
Cuba
tropical S. America
Notes
E. crassipes(Mart.) Solms-Laub., the water hyacinth, is a tropical American floating aquatic with inflated petioles which is now widespread in the Old World Tropics. It is sometimes cultivated in pools as an ornamental and it has become a serious pest as a water weed in parts of tropical Africa, as yet outside our area (see Wild in Kirkia 2: 9, with fig.(1961)).

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