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Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon

Bayer Code : hetre

Scientific name: Heteranthera reniformis Ruiz & Pavon


Synonym(s) of Sc. name:

Classification: Pontederiaceae, Monocotyledonous

Common name: mudplantain (U.S.A.)

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: FR : heteranthère reniforme ; IT : eterantera a fiori bianchi ; PT : ; EN : mudplantain (U.S.A.) ;

Biological type: Perennial


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- Height : 20-50 cm.

- Stem : submerged, creeping along the mud, rooting at the nodes, wrapped by thick squamiform sheaths.

- Leaves : alternate, glabrous ; blade 5x3 cm, cordate -reniform, obtuse or rounded at the apex and bilobate at the base; petiole 10-15 cm.

- Inflorescence : raceme 2-10-flowered; flowers with 6 tepals white to pale blue, united at base and forming a tube 6 to 10 mm, free in the other parts, lanceolate, sharply pointed; at anthesis, 2 outer tepals bend in towards the tube, the third bends outwards; 3 stamens, 2 small with yellow anther, the third longer with grey-blue anther.

- Fruit : capsule with many seeds.

- Risk of confusion with: Heteranthera limosa Willd.

- Biological type : perennial.

Mistake with: Heteranthera limosa


Ecological profile (click on flags): France   Rare     Italy  Present     Portugal  Rare    

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