Pellegrini, Marco O. O.;Horn, Charles N.;Almeida, Rafael F.
Pontederia
Sign in to savePontederia is a genus of tristylous aquatic plants, members of which are commonly known as pickerel weeds. Pontederia is endemic to the Americas, distributed from Canada to Argentina, where it is found in shallow water or on mud. The genus was named by Linnaeus in honour of the Italian botanist Giulio Pontedera.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderCommelinales
- FamilyPontederiaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 358
- With media
- 150
- Family
- Pontederiaceae
- Collections
- INECOL, DERN-IMECBIO-CUCSUR-UDG, FCN-UAQ, DBG, MEL, IGL-UNAM
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States, Papua New Guinea, Guatemala, Sudan, China, Brazil, Peru
Wikidata facts
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Pontederiaceae
- Image
- Pontederia cordata.JPG
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- Commons category
- Pontederia
- topic's main category
- Category:Pontederia
- taxon common name
- 梭鱼草属
- taxonomic type
- Pontederia cordata
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Pontederia is a genus of tristylous aquatic plants, members of which are commonly known as pickerel weeds. Pontederia is endemic to the Americas, distributed from Canada to Argentina, where it is found in shallow water or on mud. The genus was named by Linnaeus in honour of the Italian botanist Giulio Pontedera.
Pontederia plants have large waxy leaves, succulent stems and a thick pad of fibrous roots. The roots give rise to rhizomes that allow rapid colonization by vegetative reproduction. Species are perennial, and produce a large spike of flowers in the summer. There is a species of bee (Dufourea novaeangliae) that exclusively visits Pontederia cordata; waterfowl also eat the fruit of the plant.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pontederia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.