View source for Hydrocleys nymphoides

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Hydrocleys nymphoides
|accepted_authority=(Willdenow) Buchenau
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Abhandlungen herausgegeben vom naturwissenschaftlichen Vereine zu Bremen
|place=2: 2.1869; Index Crit. Butom. Alism. Juncagin., 2, 1868
|year=1868
}}
|common_names=Water-poppy
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Stratiotes nymphoides
|authority=Willdenow
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=4(2): 821. 1806
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Limnocharitaceae;Hydrocleys;Hydrocleys nymphoides
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Limnocharitaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Hydrocleys]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Hydrocleys nymphoides]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> to 50 cm; stolons to 45 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: petioles 1.5–40 cm × 0.9–9 mm, sheathing base to 8.5 cm; blade broadly ovate to orbiculate, 1.4–11.9 × 0.9–10.6 cm, veins 5–9. <b>Inflorescences</b> with 1–6 flowers, proliferating with stolons, leaves; peduncles to 30 cm × 1.5–6 mm; bracts elliptic, 2–4.5 × 0.4–1 cm, apex obtuse; pedicels spreading, 3.5–17.5 cm × 1.5–6 mm. <b>Flowers</b> ca. 6.5 cm wide; sepals 13–28 × 7–13 mm; petals spreading, pale yellow to white with yellow base, 2.3–2.6 × 3.8–4.1 cm; stamens 20–25; staminodes 20+; pistils 5–8, 10 mm. <b>Fruits</b> 10–14.5 × 2–3.5 mm; beak 3.5–5.5 mm. <b>Seeds</b> ca. 1 mm, sparsely glandular-pubescent, glandular trichomes 0.15 mm, 150–200 &#109; m apart, not present on every epidermal cell of seed coat.</span><!--

-->{{Treatment/Body
|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Margins of lakes and wet ditches
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Fla.;Tex.;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p><i>Hydrocleys nymphoides</i> is cultivated, either in aquaria or in pools and ponds (D. S. Correll and M. C. Johnston 1970; R. K. Godfrey and J. W. Wooten 1979). The species apparently persists following cultivation or dumping of aquaria.</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=correll1970a
|text=Correll, D. S. and M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the Vascular Plants of Texas. Renner, Tex.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=godfrey1979a
|text=Godfrey, R. K. and J. W. Wooten. 1979. Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Southeastern United States: Monocotyledons. Athens, Ga.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=muenscher1944a
|text=Muenscher, W. C. 1944. Aquatic Plants of the United States. Ithaca, N.Y.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=thieret1972a
|text=Thieret, J. W. 1972. Aquatic and marsh plants of Louisiana: A checklist. J. Louisiana Soc. Hort. Res. 13: 1--45.
}}
}}<!--

--><!--

-->{{#Taxon:
name=Hydrocleys nymphoides
|author=
|authority=(Willdenow) Buchenau
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Stratiotes nymphoides
|family=Limnocharitaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Margins of lakes and wet ditches
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Fla.;Tex.;Central America;South America.
|introduced=true
|reference=correll1970a;godfrey1979a;muenscher1944a;thieret1972a
|publication title=Abhandlungen herausgegeben vom naturwissenschaftlichen Vereine zu Bremen
|publication year=1868
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V22/V22_17.xml
|genus=Hydrocleys
|species=Hydrocleys nymphoides
}}<!--

-->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Hydrocleys]]