- Family : PONTEDERIACEAE
(Pickerel-Weed Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : JALKUMBHI FAMILY (जलकुम्भी फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Pontederiaceae
- Basionym : Pontederia crassipes Mart.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms
- Common name : Water Hyacinth
- Vernacular name :
- Vengaayatthaamarai (Tamil)
- Bilathi dala, Kajaropati (Oria)
- Pisachi tamara (Telugu)
- Kulavazha, Kakapola (Malayalam)
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Ponds and wet lowlands
- Comments / notes : On hill plains in still or slow-flowing waters, often clogging irrigation canals. An aggressive weed of waste wetlands and uncleared lakes.
- Key identification features : Aquatic free floating herb
- Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district,East Godavari district, Guntur district, Krishna district, Nellore district, Prakasam district, Srikakulam district, Vishakapatnam district, Vizianagaram district, West Godavari district
- Telangana : Nalgonda district, Khammam district, Mehboobnagar district
- Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Pune district, Raigad district, Thane district
- Odisha : Throughout Odisha
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dindigul district, Dharmapuri district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Karur district, Krishnagiri district, Madurai district, Namakkal district, Pudukkottai district, Sivaganga district, Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tiruvannamalai district, Villipuram district, Vellore district
- Punjab : Punjab
- Native : South America
- World Distribution : Naturalized in Asiatic Tropics
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3
- R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District
- R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1.
- N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka
- B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons
- Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore district
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district
- Seetharam et al., 2000 – Flora of Gulbarga district
- Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi district
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Eichhornia crassipes. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.
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Botanical Description
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Herbarium Specimen(s)
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Line Drawings
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Field Image(s)
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India Distribution
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World Distribution
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