Nymphoides crenata

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Nymphoides crenata
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Menyanthaceae
Genus: Nymphoides
Species:
N. crenata
Binomial name
Nymphoides crenata
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Occurrence data from AVH
Synonyms [3]

Limnanthemum crenatum F.Muell.
Villarsia crenata (F.Muell.) F.Muell.

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Nymphoides crenata, commonly known as wavy marshwort, is an aquatic perennial herb of the family Menyanthaceae endemic to Australia, [4] found in all mainland states and the Northern Territory [5] [6] [7]

Description

It is a stoloniferous, floating, perennial with stems up to 3 m long. The petioles of the basal leaves are from 8–42 cm long. The leaf lamina are ovate to circular, and deeply cordate and vary from 3 to 15 cm in length. The stem leaves are smaller, and sometimes kidney-shaped. The flowers heterostylous, (see the gallery) and there can be from 8 to14 in clusters subtended by 1–4 stem leaves, or sometimes in spaced pairs along a short inflorescence. The calyx is from 5.5 to 16 mm long and the corolla from 20 to 50 mm in diameter. There are usually 4 lobes (sometimes 4 or 6) and there are usually 5 stigmas (but from 2-5). [6]

Habitat

It grows on floodplains, [8] in swamps, lagoons, irrigation channels, and also in temporarily inundated depressions, [6] and in slow-flowing streams where the depth of the water is up to about 1.5 m deep, usually on mud, and it will persist on drying mud. [4]

Taxonomy

Nymphoides crenata was first described as Limnanthemum crenatum in 1854 by Ferdinand von Mueller. [1] [9] In 1891, Otto Kuntze transferred it to the genus, Nymphoides . [1] [2]

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References

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  2. 1 2 Kuntze, C.E.O. (1891). "Nymphoides". Revisio Generum Plantarum. 2: 429.
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  4. 1 2 Jacobs, S. W. L. "New South Wales Flora Online: Nymphoides crenata". Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney, Australia.
  5. Nymphoides crenata occurrence data from Australasian Virtual Herbarium: WA NT QLD NSW VIC SA
  6. 1 2 3 "Flora of Victoria: Nymphoides crenata". vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
  7. Western Australian Herbarium, Biodiversity and Conservation Science. "FloraBase—the Western Australian Flora: Nymphoides crenata". florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
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  9. Mueller, F.J.H. von (18 September 1854). "Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants, chiefly collected within the boundaries of the colony of Victoria". Transactions of the Philosophical Society of Victoria. 1: 17.