Sea cans

Sea cans
	Ezannos sea jug ( Nymphoides ezannoi )
Systematics
	Nuclear eudicotyledons
	Asterids
	Euasterids II
Order :	Astern-like (Asterales)
Family :	Fever clover family (Menyanthaceae)
Genre :	Sea cans
Scientific name
	Nymphoides
	Ség.

The sea churns ( Nymphoides ) are a genus of plants within the fever clover family (Menyanthaceae). The over 40 species are distributed in fresh water from the temperate to tropical areas of the world.

description

European sea jug ( Nymphoides peltata ), illustration

Nymphoides aurantiaca

Nymphoides crenata

Flower of Ezannos sea jug ( Nymphoides ezannoi )

Nymphoides hydrophylla

Nymphoides krishnakesara

Nymphoides thunbergiana

Vegetative characteristics

Nymphoides species are usually perennial, rarely annual herbaceous plants . They are mostly floating leaf plants that cover lakes and ponds like a carpet. They usually form short rhizomes with many stem-like runners ( stolons ). The stem flooding in the water and sometimes forming loose root node ( Nodien ). The alternate, sometimes almost opposite, leaves are petiolate and simple with a smooth leaf margin. They have underwater leaves when they are young and floating leaves as fully grown plants.

Generative characteristics

The flowers are in groups at the nodes above the water surface. The hermaphroditic flowers are radial symmetry and rarely four, mostly five-fold. They are mostly heterostylish . Most of the five sepals are only fused at their base. The mostly five petals are mostly only fused at their base and have a fringed edge. There is only one circle with five free, fertile stamens . The ovary is on top. The style ends in a two- to three-lobed scar.

The capsule fruits contain many seeds.

Systematics and distribution

The genus Nymphoides was established by Jean François Séguier . For Nymphoides Ség. there are synonyms : Limnanthemum S.G. Gmel. , Schweyckerta C.C. Gmel.

The genus has a wide distribution from the temperate to the tropical zones in the northern and southern hemisphere . There are over 40 Nymphoides species , some of which can be cultivated as aquarium plants :

Nymphoides aquatica (JFGmel.) Kuntze : North America .

Nymphoides aurantiaca (Dalzell) Kuntze (Syn .: Nymphoides hydrocharoides (F.Muell.) Kuntze ): Asia and Australia .

Nymphoides beaglensis Aston : It occurs in Western Australia .

Nymphoides bosseri A.Raynal : It occurs in Madagascar.

Nymphoides brevipedicellata (Vatke) A.Raynal : Tropical and Southern Africa .

Nymphoides cordata (Elliott) Fernald : Eastern North America.

Nymphoides coreana (Léveillé) Hara : Eastern Asia.

Nymphoides crenata (F.Muell.) Kuntze : Australia.

Nymphoides cristata (Roxb.) Kuntze : Asia: China , Vietnam, Taiwan and eastern India .

Nymphoides disperma Aston : It occurs in Western Australia .

Nymphoides elegans A.Raynal (Syn .: Nymphoides moratiana A.Raynal ): It occurs in Madagascar.

Nymphoides elliptica Aston : It occurs in Queensland.

Nymphoides exiliflora (F.Muell.) Kuntze : Australia.

Ezannos Sea Can ( Nymphoides ezannoi Berhaut ): It occurs in Mali, Senegal, Chad and Sudan.
Nymphoides fallax Ornduff : It occurs in Mexico and Guatemala.
Nymphoides flaccida L.Sm. : It occurs in Colombia.
Nymphoides forbesiana (Griseb.) Kuntze : Africa.
Nymphoides furculifolia woodpecker : Northern Australia.
Nymphoides geminata (R.Br.) Kuntze : Australia and Papua New Guinea.
Nymphoides grayana (Griseb.) Kuntze : It occurs in Cuba and the Bahamas.
Nymphoides guineensis A.Raynal : Africa.
Nymphoides hastata (Dop) Kerr : It occurs in Thailand and Laos.
Nymphoides herzogii A.Galàn-Mera & G.Navarro : It occurs in Bolivia.
Nymphoides humilis A.Raynal : It occurs in Mali and Cameroon.
Nymphoides hydrophylla (Lour.) Kuntze : It occurs in India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and China.
Nymphoides indica (L.) Kuntze (Syn .: Nymphoides humboldtiana (Kunth) Kuntze ): It occurs in Asia, Africa, Australia, Mexico, Central and South America.
Nymphoides krishnakesara K.T. Joseph & Sivar. : It occurs in the Indian state of Kerala .
Nymphoides lungtanensis S.P.Li, THHsieh & CCLin : It occurs in Taiwan.
Nymphoides macrosperma Vasudevan : It occurs in the Indian state of Kerala .
Nymphoides microphylla (A.St.-Hil.) Kuntze : Central and South America.
Nymphoides milnei A.Raynal : It occurs in Zambia.
Nymphoides montana Aston : Australia.
Nymphoides parvifolia (Wall.) Kuntze : It occurs in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Myanmar and in Australia.
European sea jug ( Nymphoides peltata (SGGmel.) Kuntze ): Eurasia .
Nymphoides planosperma Aston : Northern Australia.
Nymphoides quadriloba Aston : Australia.
Nymphoides rautanenii (NEBr.) A.Raynal : Southern and Tropical Africa.
Nymphoides siamensis (Ostenf.) Kerr : Asia.
Nymphoides simulans Aston : It is only found in Queensland.
Nymphoides sivarajanii K.T.Joseph : It occurs in the Indian state of Kerala .
Nymphoides spinulosperma Aston : Australia.
Nymphoides cancellous Aston : Northern Australia.
Nymphoides stygia (JMBlack) H. Eichler : Australia.
Nymphoides subacuta Aston : Northern Australia.
Nymphoides tenuissima A.Raynal : It occurs in Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Nymphoides thunbergiana (Griseb.) Kuntze : It occurs in southern Africa, southern tropical Africa and Madagascar.
Nymphoides tonkinensis (Dop) PHHo : It is only found in Vietnam.
Nymphoides triangularis Aston : It occurs in Queensland.
Nymphoides verrucosa (REFries) A.Galàn-Mera & G.Navarro : It occurs in Bolivia and Paraguay.

No longer counted in this genus:

Nymphoides exigua (F. Muell.) Kuntze => Liparophyllum exiguum (F. Muell.) Tippery & Les

photos

Nymphoides indica :

swell

HI Aston: Notes on Australian taxa of Nymphoides (Menyanthaceae): typification and nomenclature. In: Muelleria , Volume 27, 2009, pp. 119–126. (Section systematics)
Ting-nung Ho, Robert Ornduff: Menyanthaceae. : Nymphoides , In: Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven (Ed.): Flora of China. Volume 16: Gentianaceae through Boraginaceae. Science Press and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing and St. Louis 1995, ISBN 0-915279-33-9 . (Section description)
M. Qaiser: Menyanthaceae in the Flora of Pakistan , Volume 111: (online)

Individual evidence

↑ Christel Kasselmann : aquarium plants. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1995; 2nd, revised and expanded edition 1999, ISBN 3-8001-7454-5 , pp. 384–391 and 463.
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Web links

Commons : Sea Jugs ( Nymphoides ) - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

[1] Christel Kasselmann : aquarium plants. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1995; 2nd, revised and expanded edition 1999, ISBN 3-8001-7454-5 , pp. 384–391 and 463.

[GRIN-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa ^ab ^ac ^ad ^ae ^af ^ag ^ah ^ai ^aj ^ak ^al ^am ^an ^ao ^ap ^aq ^ar ^as ^at Nymphoides im Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved February 15, 2018.