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Eichhornia crassipes
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Species notes
About Eichhornia crassipes
Eichhornia crassipes is treated by the GBIF Backbone as a synonym of Pontederia crassipes (also recorded as floating water-hyacinth), an accepted species in the family Pontederiaceae, within the order Commelinales. Checklist records aggregated by GBIF list it from Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Brazil West-Central, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil North, and Brazil South. The photographs can be compared for visible features such as growth habit, leaf arrangement, stems, flowers and fruit.
- Common name
- floating water-hyacinth
- Family
- Pontederiaceae
- Order
- Commelinales
- Identification rank
- Species
- Recorded distribution
- Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Brazil West-Central, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil North, Brazil South
Taxonomy source: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
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