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Hygrophila Polysperma
Hygrophila polysperma
Hygrophila polysperma, commonly known as dwarf hygrophila, dwarf hygro, Miramar weed, Indian swampweed or Indian waterweed, is an aquatic plant in the family Acanthaceae. It is native to Bangladesh, India, China and Malaysia, and has also been introduced to the US states of Florida, Texas and possibly Virginia. It is listed on the Federal Noxious Weed List in the US and is illegal to import and sell in a number of states including Kansas and South Carolina.
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Hygrophila Corymbosa
Hygrophila corymbosa
Hygrophila corymbosa, commonly known as temple plant, starhorn or giant hygro, is a riparian plant in the acanthus family.
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Cryptocoryne Parva
Cryptocoryne parva
Cryptocoryne is a genus of aquatic plants from the family Araceae. The genus is naturally distributed in tropical regions of India, Southeast Asia and New Guinea. The English common name "water trumpet" refers to their inflorescence, a spadix enclosed by a spathe, which resembles a trumpet. The genus is commonly referred to as Crypts by aquarium hobbyists.
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Cryptocoryne Beckettii
Cryptocoryne beckettii
Cryptocoryne beckettii, also known as Beckett's water trumpet, is a plant species belonging to the Araceae genus Cryptocoryne.
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Cryptocoryne Walkeri
Cryptocoryne walkeri
Cryptocoryne walkeri is a plant species belonging to the aroid genus Cryptocoryne. It is known to occur only in Sri Lanka.
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Bucephalandra
Bucephalandra
Bucephalandra is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae. There are 30 species of Bucephalandra which have been discovered in Borneo and have been formally described by S.Y. Wong and P.C. Boyce. So far, all described species have only been recorded from Borneo. Bucephalandra are usually found growing as dense mats over stones or rocks in streams or rivers in moist tropical forest.
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Monte Carlo
Micranthemum tweediei
Micranthemum is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Linderniaceae.
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Dwarf Baby Tears
Hemianthus callitrichoides
Hemianthus callitrichoides is a semi-aquatic plant in the family Linderniaceae. The plant is endemic to West Indies, where it is native to the islands of The Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico. In The Bahamas, this species known as "water-starwort".
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Glossostigma
Glossostigma elatinoides
Glossostigma elatinoides, also known as small mud-mat, is a flowering plant in the family Phrymaceae and grows in eastern states of Australia. It is a small aquatic or terrestrial herb with mauve flowers.
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Hairgrass
Eleocharis parvula
Eleocharis parvula is a species of spikesedge known by the common names dwarf spikerush, small spikerush and hairgrass in aquaria. It is a plant of brackish and saltwater habitat, such as marshes and mudflats. It is a perennial herb growing tufts of spongy, compressible stems not more than 10 centimeters tall. The plant grows from a tuber which is J-shaped or horseshoe-shaped, a characteristic that helps in the identification of the species. The inflorescence is an oval-shaped spikelet just 2 or 3 millimeters long, made up of several tiny flowers.
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Staurogyne Repens
Staurogyne repens
Staurogyne repens is a plant in the family Acanthaceae, native to Brazil and Guyana. It was formally known as Ebermaiera repens. It is widely used as a tropical aquarium plant, where it grows as a bright green carpet at the bottom of the tank.
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Alternanthera Reineckii
Alternanthera reineckii
Alternanthera reineckii is a species of aquatic plant in the family Amaranthaceae known as water hedge. Several cultivars are used as ornamental plants in aquaria. It is native to South America.
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Pogostemon Helferi
Pogostemon helferi
Pogostemon helferi, also known as dao-noi, is a species of Thai aquatic plant. It is a common ornamental plant in aquariums.
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Hydrocotyle Tripartita
Hydrocotyle tripartita
Hydrocotyle, also called floating pennywort, water pennywort, dollar weed, marsh penny, thick-leaved pennywort and white rot, is a genus of prostrate, perennial aquatic or semi-aquatic plants formerly classified in the family Apiaceae, now in the family Araliaceae.
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Marsilea Hirsuta
Marsilea hirsuta
Marsilea is a genus of approximately 65 species of aquatic ferns of the family Marsileaceae. The name honours Italian naturalist Luigi Ferdinando Marsili (1656–1730).
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Bolbitis
Bolbitis heudelotii
Bolbitis heudelotii, also known as the African water fern, creeping fern, and Congo fern, is native to subtropical and tropical Africa, from Ethiopia west to Senegal; and down to northern South Africa.
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Red Root Floater
Phyllanthus fluitans
Phyllanthus fluitans, also known as the red root floater, floating spurge, or apple duckweed, is a species of free floating aquatic plant and herbaceous perennial in the family Phyllanthaceae. This species is one of the only three non-terrestrial species in the genus Phyllanthus, with the other species being P. leonardianus and P. felicis. The generic name comes from Ancient Greek meaning leaf or a leaf flower, and the specific name comes from Latin meaning floating or float. It was described in March 1863 by George Bentham and Johannes Müller Argoviensis.
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Salvinia Minima
Salvinia minima
Salvinia minima is a species of aquatic, floating fern that grows on the surface of still waterways. It is usually referred to as common salvinia or water spangles. Salvinia minima is native to South America, Mesoamerica, and the West Indies and was introduced to the United States in the 1920s–1930s. It is classified as an invasive species internationally and can be detrimental to native ecosystems. This species is similar to but should not be confused with giant salvinia, Salvinia molesta.
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Azolla
Azolla cypoloma
Azolla is a genus of seven species of aquatic ferns in the family Salviniaceae. They are extremely reduced in form and specialized, having a significantly different appearance to other ferns and more resembling some mosses or even duckweeds. Azolla filiculoides is one of two fern species for which a reference genome has been published. It is believed that this genus grew so prolifically during the Eocene that it triggered a global cooling event that has lasted to the present.
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Cabomba
Cabomba caroliniana
Cabomba caroliniana, commonly known as Carolina fanwort, is a rhizomatous, aquatic, perennial herb native to North and South America. Having been a popular aquarium plant, it has been exported around the world and has become an invasive species in Europe and Australia.
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