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Hygrophila madurensis is a critically endangered aquatic plant from a single small site in Tamil Nadu, India, known only from Nallakulam in the Alagar Hills. It is a wetland species that grows submerged or in very wet ground, and it is rarely cultivated.
Hygrophila madurensis is a critically endangered aquatic plant in the family Acanthaceae. It is endemic to Nallakulam in the Alagar Hills of the Eastern Ghats in Madurai district, Tamil Nadu, India.
Balakrishnan and Subramaniam (in J. Indian Bot. Soc. vol.42 on page 411 in 1964), described the genus Santapaua with only one species, namely S. madurensis. Karthikeyan and Moorthy (Fl. Pl. India: vol.22 in 2009) merged the genus Santapaua with Hygrophila giving this species the name, Hygrophila madurensis.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hygrophila madurensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
