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Limnophila limnophiloides

Limnophila limnophiloides was a submerged aquatic plant of the Plantaginaceae family, known only from Bhushi Lake in western India. It is now listed as extinct, so it is not in cultivation and cannot be grown.

Family
Plantaginaceae (Plantain family)
Grows as
Aquatic
Native range
W. India
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Limnophila limnophiloides is an aquatic plant belonging to the family Plantaginaceae which was endemic to the Bhushi lake in India. It was last recorded from a single specimen collected in 1918 and has been listed as extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature in June 2024.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Limnophila limnophiloides 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.

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