- Family : MENYANTHACEAE
(Pogbean Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : KUMUDINI FAMILY (कुमुदीनी फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Menyanthaceae
- Synonym(s) : Limnanthemum peltatum S.G.Gmel.; Villarsia peltata (S.G.Gmel.) Roem. & Schult.; Schweyckerta nymphoides (L.) C.C.Gmel.; Limnanthemum nymphoides (L.) Hoffmanns. & Link; Limnanthes nymphoides (L.) Stokes; Limnanthes peltata Gray; Menyanthes natans Lam.; Menyanthes nymphoides L.; Nymphoides europaea Fisch. ex Steud.; Nymphoides flava Hill ex Druce; Nymphoides nymphoides (L.) Britton; Nymphoides orbiculata Gilib.; Villarsia nymphoidea St.-Lag.; Villarsia nymphoides (L.) Vent.; Waldschmidia nymphoides (L.) F.H.Wigg.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Nymphoides peltata (S.G.Gmel.) Kuntze
- Common name : Yellow Floating Heart, Fringed water-lily
- Habit : Aquatic herbs
- Habitat : Lakes, Ponds, Swamps
- Comments / notes : The plants are commonly used in ornamental water gardens.
- Key identification features : Leaves heart- shaped floating, Flowers yellow with fringed petal margins; Fruit capsule bearing many flattened seeds with stiff marginal hairs.
- Distribution :
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Rajasthan : Jodhpur district
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Native : Albania, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Central European Rus, China, Chita, Czechoslovakia, East European Russia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Irk
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Albania, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Central European Rus, China, Chita, Czechoslovakia, East European Russia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Manchuria, Mongolia, Netherlands, North Caucasus, North European Russi, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Romania, Sardegna, South European Russi, Spain, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Turkey-in-Europe, Tuva, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, Yugoslavia, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Denmark, District of Columbia, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Ireland, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Newfoundland, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Québec, Rhode Island, Sweden, Switzerland, Texas, Vermont, Washington
- Literature :
- Shetty B.V. and Singh V., (1987). Flora of India Series 2 Flora of Rajasthan Vol. 1. Botanical survey of India, Govt. India. PP- 456
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Nymphoides peltata. Downloaded on 10 October 2024.
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