Plantae > Tracheophyta > Liliopsida > Alismatales > Araceae > Pistia > Pistia stratiotesPistia stratiotes (water lettuce)Synonyms: Apiospermum obcordatum; Limnonesis commutata; Limnonesis friedrichsthaliana; Pistia aegyptiaca; Pistia aethiopica (homotypic); Pistia africana; Pistia amazonica; Pistia brasiliensis; Pistia commutata; Pistia crispata; Pistia cumingii; Pistia gardneri; Pistia horkeliana; Pistia leprieuri; Pistia linguiformis; Pistia minor; Pistia natalensis; Pistia obcordata; Pistia occidentalis; Pistia schleideniana; Pistia spathulata; Pistia stratiotes cuneata; Pistia stratiotes linguiformis; Pistia stratiotes obcordata; Pistia stratiotes spathulata; Pistia stratiotes var. cuneata; Pistia stratiotes var. linguiformis; Pistia stratiotes var. obcordata; Pistia stratiotes var. spathulata; Pistia texensis; Pistia turpini; Pistia turpinii; Pistia weigeltiana; Zala asiatica Pistia is a genus of aquatic plant in the arum family, Araceae. The single species it comprises, Pistia stratiotes, is often called water cabbage, water lettuce, Nile cabbage, or shellflower. Its native distribution is uncertain, but probably pantropical; it was first discovered from the Nile near Lake Victoria in Africa. It is now present, either naturally or through human introduction, in nearly all tropical and subtropical fresh waterways. The genus name is derived from the Greek word πιστός (pistos), meaning "water," and refers to the aquatic nature of the plants. |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture ♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935 ♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. ♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants♦ 5Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009 ♦ 6HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández ♦ 7Feeding Habits and Trophic Niche Overlap of Aquatic Orthoptera Associated with Macrophytes, Soledad Capello, Mercedes Marchese, and María L. de Wysiecki, Zoological Studies 51(1): 51-58 (2012) ♦ 8Abundance of food plant species and food habits of Rhinoceros unicornis Linn. in Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, Assam, India, Pradip Konwar, Malabika Kakati Saikia & P.K. Saikia, Journal of Threatened Taxa | September 2009 | 1(9): 457-460 ♦ 9Food Plants Eaten by Amazonian Manatees (Trichechus inunguis, Mammalia : Sirenia), Ioni G. Colares and Elton P. Colares, Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology, Vol. 45, N. 1 : pp. 67 - 72, March, 2002 ♦ 10Consumption of Aquatic Plants by the West Indian Manatee, Kay Etheridge, G. B. Rathbun, J. A. Powell, and H. I. Kochman, J. Aquat. Plant Manage. 23: 21-25 (1985) Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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