Albidella nymphaeifolia
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Alismatales |
| Family: | Alismataceae |
| Genus: | Albidella |
| Species: | A. nymphaeifolia
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Albidella nymphaeifolia is a species of flowering plant in genus Alismataceae. It is an annual or helophyte native to Cuba and the Yucatán Peninsula (Belize, Guatemala, Campeche, Quintana Roo, and Yucatán State).[2][1]
Description
[edit]Leaves are variable; one plant can develop 2 - 3 stems of different types simultaneously. Submersed leaves short-petiolate, blades long, lanceolate to linear, light-green, membranously transparent, 15 – 25 cm long x 0.8 - 1.8 cm wide, obtuse at the point, decurrent to the markedly winged petiole at the base. Their margins are undulate to curled, sometimes narrowly parallel, another time the blades broaden towards the apex and are widest in the upper third showing club-shaped form. Floating or emersed leaves are 25 – 35 cm long, long-petioled, blades oval or ovate with conspicuous lobes, which touch and / or cover each other. Blades and lobes inclusively 6 – 12 cm long x 5 – 8 cm wide, the length of the central rib usually being the same as the width of the blade. In the blade there are, some distance from each other, clear, short and longer pellucid lines reaching a length of 0.2 - 0.3 mm. Sterile plants look very similar to Echinodorus berteroi.[3][4][5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Albidella nymphaeifolia (Griseb.) Pichon". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 25 May 2025.
- ^ "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew". apps.kew.org. Retrieved 2017-01-26.
- ^ A., Grisebach (1866-01-01). "Catalogus plantarum cubensium exhibens collectionem Wrightianam aliasque minores ex insula Cuba missas".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie". v.2 (1882). 1881-01-01.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Garden., New York Botanical (1909-01-01). "North American flora". North American Flora. Series 2. v. 17, pt. 1 (1909). ISSN 0078-1312.
External links
[edit]- Herbarium specimen - Belize
- photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected Cuba in the 1860s, isolectotype of Alisma nymphaeifolium hence also of Albidella nymphaeifolia
- photo of herbarium specimen at Natural History Museum (London), collected Cuba in the 1860s, isolectotype of Alisma nymphaeifolium hence also of Albidella nymphaeifolia
- Encyclopedia of Life
- Photos of Albidella nymphaeifolia