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Lagenandra dewitii

Lagenandra dewitii
Photo: National Museum of Natural History, CC0
Family
Araceae (Arum family)
Grows as
Aquatic
Native range
Sri Lanka
Climate
wet tropical

About

Lagenandra dewitii is an aquatic to semi-aquatic flowering plant species belonging to the aroid genus Lagenandra. It was first described in 1986, from living plants and dried herbarium material, and named in honour of Dutch botanist Hendrik de Wit.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lagenandra dewitii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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