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Nymphoides balakrishnanii is a small aquatic plant in the buckbean family, known only from seasonal ponds on lateritic hills in the southern Western Ghats of Kerala, India. It needs shallow, seasonally flooded water and is rarely grown outside its native habitat.
Nymphoides balakrishnanii is an aquatic plant in the Menyanthaceae, endemic to lateritic plateaus of the southern Western Ghats of India.
This species is restricted to a seasonal pond in the lateritic hillocks of Koovapara, Kasaragod, Kerala, India.
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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.
