Heart-leaved sword plant
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Heart-leaved sword plant ( Echinodorus cordifolius ) |
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The heart-leaved sword plant ( Echinodorus cordifolius ) is a species of the sword plants genus ( Echinodorus ) within the family of the frog-spoon plants (Alismataceae). It is used as an aquarium plant.
description
This marsh plant is a medium to large and vigorously growing, perennial herbaceous plant that forms rhizomes . The egg to heart-shaped leaves stand together in a leaf rosette . The leaf blade is medium in size, with occasional red spots.
Occurrence
The natural range of the heart-leaved sword plant in the New World stretches from the central and southeastern United States to Paraguay .
Taxonomy
The first publication took place in 1753 under the name ( Basionym ) Alisma cordifolium by Carl von Linné in Species Plantarum , p. 343. The new combination to Echinodorus cordifolius (L.) Griseb. was published in 1857 by August Heinrich Grisebach in Treatises of the Royal Society of Sciences in Göttingen , Volume 7, p. 257. The specific epithet cordifolius means heart-shaped leaf. Other synonyms for Echinodorus cordifolius (L.) Griseb. are: Sagittaria cordifolia (L.) Lam. Nutt , Sagittaria radicans . , Echinodorus radicans (Nutt.) Engelm. , Echinodorus fluitans Fassett , Echinodorus cordifolius subsp. fluitans (Fassett) RRHaynes & Holm-Niels. , Echinodorus ovalis C. Wright , echinodorus schlueteri Rataj ( Schlüters sword plant ).
Use in the aquarium hobby
Like most other species of the sword plant genus , the heart-leaved sword plant is one of the popular aquarium plants . The heart-leaved sword plant is considered to be a particularly undemanding plant that does not depend on additional carbon dioxide fertilization . Since it is very robust, it is also suitable for planting aquariums in which herbivorous cichlids are kept. However, it should not be lit for more than 10 hours a day.
In the aquarium , this species thrives best at temperatures between 20 and 28 degrees Celsius. It is suitable as a medium, background and specimen plant. Aquariums should hold around 200 liters.
A virus-infected plant of the species was traded as the variety Tropica Marble Queen .
literature
- Bernd Greger: Plants in the freshwater aquarium. Birgit Schmettkamp Verlag, Bornheim 1998, ISBN 3-928819-16-X
- Christel Kasselmann : Designing plant aquariums , Franckh-Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-440-08518-X
- Christel Kasselmann: aquarium plants. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart, 2nd edition 1999, ISBN 3-8001-7454-5 , p. 246 f. and 267 f. ( Echinodorus schlueteri ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Data sheet at World Checklist of Selected Plant Families of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on August 21, 2014
- ↑ Christel Kasselmann (1999), p. 247.