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Trithuria lanterna is a small annual aquatic herb from northern Australia in the Hydatellaceae family, where it grows in seasonally wet sites. It needs constant moisture or shallow water to thrive.
Trithuria lanterna is a species of plant in the family Hydatellaceae endemic to Australia.
It is native to the Northern Territory, Queensland, and Western Australia.
Trithuria austinensis · Trithuria australis · Trithuria bibracteata · Trithuria cookeana · Trithuria cowieana · Trithuria filamentosa · Trithuria fitzgeraldii · Trithuria inconspicua subsp. brevistyla · Trithuria inconspicua · Trithuria konkanensis · Trithuria occidentalis · Trithuria polybracteata
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Trithuria lanterna 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.
