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|accepted_name=Heteranthera reniformis
|accepted_authority=Ruiz & Pavon
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Peruv.
|place=1: 43. 1798
|year=1798
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Heterandra reniformis
|authority=Ruiz & Pavón Palisot de Beauvois
}}
|hierarchy=Pontederiaceae;Heteranthera;Heteranthera reniformis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Pontederiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Heteranthera]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Heteranthera reniformis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 42
|treatment_page=page 43
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual or facultatively perennial. <b>Vegetative</b> stems submersed with elongate internodes, or emersed and procumbent. <b>Flowering</b> stems 1–9 cm, distal internode 0.5–4 cm. <b>Sessile</b> leaves forming basal rosette, blade linear to oblanceolate, thin, 2.4–3.7 cm × 3–8 mm. <b>Petiolate</b> leaves floating or emersed; stipule 1–5 cm; petiole 2–13 cm; blade reniform, 1–4 × 1–5 cm, length equal to or less than width, apex obtuse. <b>Inflorescences</b> spicate, 2–8-flowered, elongating in 1 day, usually shorter than spathes, terminal flower sometimes extending beyond spathe apex; spathes 0.8–5.5 cm, glabrous; peduncle 0.5–4.2 cm, glabrous. <b>Flowers</b> opening ca. 3 hours after sunrise, wilting by early afternoon; perianth white, salverform, tube 5–10 mm, limbs zygomorphic, lobes narrowly elliptic, 3–6.5 mm, distal central lobe with yellow or green region at base, sometimes with distal brown spot; stamens unequal, lateral stamens 0.9–2.2 mm, filaments linear, pubescent with white multicellular hairs toward apex; central stamen 2.2–4.7 mm, filament sparsely pubescent with multicellular hairs; style pubescent with multicellular hairs. <b>Seeds</b> 8–14-winged, 0.5–0.9 × 0.3–0.5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 48.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jun–Oct.
|habitat=Roadside ditches, edges of streams and ponds, freshwater tidal mudflats
|elevation=0–2600 m
|distribution=Ala.;Conn.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.;Mexico;throughout Central America;scattered in South America (Argentina;Brazil;Paraguay);naturalized in Italy.
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name=Heteranthera reniformis
|author=
|authority=Ruiz & Pavon
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Heterandra reniformis
|basionyms=
|family=Pontederiaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jun–Oct.
|habitat=Roadside ditches, edges of streams and ponds, freshwater tidal mudflats
|elevation=0–2600 m
|distribution=Ala.;Conn.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.;Mexico;throughout Central America;scattered in South America (Argentina;Brazil;Paraguay);naturalized in Italy.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Peruv.
|publication year=1798
|special status=
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|genus=Heteranthera
|species=Heteranthera reniformis
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