Species notes
About Pistia stratiotes
Pistia stratiotes (also recorded as Lettuce water) is an accepted species in the family Araceae, within the order Alismatales. Checklist records aggregated by GBIF list it from Afghanistan, Argentina Northeast, Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, and Burkina. The photographs can be compared for visible features such as growth habit, leaf arrangement, stems, flowers and fruit.
- Common name
- Lettuce water
- Family
- Araceae
- Order
- Alismatales
- Identification rank
- Species
- Recorded distribution
- Afghanistan, Argentina Northeast, Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina
Taxonomy source: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Field photographs
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