View source for Heteranthera limosa

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|accepted_name=Heteranthera limosa
|accepted_authority=(Swartz) Willdenow
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin Neue Schriften
|place=3: 439. 1801
|year=1801
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Pontederia limosa
|authority=Swartz
|rank=species
|publication_title=Prodr.,
|publication_place=57. 1788
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Leptanthus ovalis
|authority=Michaux
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Pontederiaceae;Heteranthera;Heteranthera limosa
|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 limosa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 41, 45
|treatment_page=page 44
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual. <b>Vegetative</b> stems submersed with elongate internodes only on plants in over 5 cm of water, or emersed and short. <b>Flowering</b> stems 2–24 cm, distal internode 1–11 cm. <b>Sessile</b> leaves forming basal rosette, blade linear to oblanceolate, thin or sometimes thickened, 3.1–6 cm × 3–5 mm. <b>Petiolate</b> leaves emersed; stipule 1–6 cm; petiole 2–13 cm; blade oblong to ovate, 1–5 cm × 4–33 mm, length equaling or greater than width; base truncate to cuneate, apex acute. <b>Inflorescences</b> 1-flowered; spathes 0.9–4.5 cm, glabrous. <b>Flowers</b> opening within 1 hour after dawn, wilting by midday; perianth blue or white, salverform, tube 15–44 mm, limbs essentially actinomorphic, lobes equal, narrowly elliptic, 5.2–26.3 mm, distal lobes yellow toward base; stamens unequal, lateral stamens 2.3–7.8 mm, central stamen 3.3–7.2 mm; filaments linear, glandular-pubescent; style glabrous. <b>Seeds</b> 9–14-winged, 0.5–0.8 × 0.2–0.6 mm. <b>2n</b> = 14.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Nov.
|habitat=Shallow water or emersed at pond edges and in roadside ditches
|elevation=0–2000 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Ark.;Calif.;Colo.;Fla.;Ill.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.Mex.;Okla.;S.Dak.;Tenn.;Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America (Argentina;Bolivia;Brazil;Colombia;Ecuador;Paraguay;Venezuela).
|discussion=<p>Personal observation of <i>Heteranthera limosa</i> suggests that it is best adapted for growth in water less than 5 cm deep and is a poor competitor with the closely related <i>H. rotundifolia</i> in deeper waters.</p>
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name=Heteranthera limosa
|authority=(Swartz) Willdenow
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Leptanthus ovalis
|basionyms=Pontederia limosa
|family=Pontederiaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Nov.
|habitat=Shallow water or emersed at pond edges and in roadside ditches
|elevation=0–2000 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Ark.;Calif.;Colo.;Fla.;Ill.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.Mex.;Okla.;S.Dak.;Tenn.;Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America (Argentina;Bolivia;Brazil;Colombia;Ecuador;Paraguay;Venezuela).
|reference=None
|publication title=Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin Neue Schriften
|publication year=1801
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_13.xml
|genus=Heteranthera
|species=Heteranthera limosa
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