Limnocharis

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Ordo: Alismatales

Familia: Alismataceae
Genus: Limnocharis
Species: L. flava – L. laforestii
Name

Limnocharis Bonpl. in Humboldt & Bonpland, Pl. Aequinoct. 1(5): 116, t. 34. 1807.

Type species: Limnocharis emarginata Bonpl.

References

Humboldt, F.W.H.A.v. & Bonpland, A.J.A. 1807. Plantae Aequinoctiales 1(5): 116.

Links

Hassler, M. 2018. Limnocharis. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2018. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 Jul. 15. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2018. Limnocharis. Published online. Accessed: Jul. 15 2018.
The Plant List 2013. Limnocharis in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 Jul. 15.
Tropicos.org 2018. Limnocharis. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 Jul. 15.

Limnocharis is a genus of plants in the family Alismataceae, native to Mexico, Central America, the West Indies and South America) but naturalized in China, India, and Southeast Asia as well. Two species are recognized as of May 2014:[2]

Limnocharis flava (L.) Buchenau[3] - most of generic range
Limnocharis laforestii Duchass. ex Griseb[4] - from Mexico to Argentina

References

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt & Aime Jacques Alexandre Bonpland. 1807. Plantae Aequinoctiales 1: 116
"World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew". apps.kew.org. Retrieved 2017-01-30.
Buchenau, Franz Georg Philipp. 1869. Abhandlungen herausgegeben vom Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereine zu Bremen 2: 2,4.
Berthold, Seemann; G., Seemann, Wilhelm E.; Naturforscher., Kaiserlich Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Deutsche Akademie der (1858-01-01). "Bonplandia". j.6 (1858). C. Rmpler.