HETERANTHERA DUBIA

Scientific Name: Heteranthera dubia (Jacquin) MacM.

Common Name: Mud Plantain

Family: PONTEDERIACEAE

Submerged, floating or creeping herbs. Leaves linear, 4-8 cm long, 1-4 mm wide, obtuse or acute, sessile. Flower solitary, axillary, exserted from spathe, perianth tube 2-4 cm long, lobes yellow, linear, 4-6 mm long; stamens 3, stigmas capitate, ovary 1 or 3 locular. Fruit a capsule. (n= 15) Sept. Sluggish streams, very rare. Alleghany Co. N.C. [Va., Fla., Miss., Tenn., Ky., W. Va.]
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