Echinodorus bleheri

Taxobox
color = lightgreen
name = Echinodorus bleheri


image_caption = Amazon Sword Plant, with Symphysodon discus fish
regnum = Plant
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Liliopsida
ordo = Alismatales
familia = Alismataceae
genus = "Echinodorus"
species = "E. bleheri"
binomial = "Echinodorus bleheri"
binomial_authority = Rataj in Preslia, 42:265, 1970

Echinodorus bleheri is commonly known as Amazon sword plant, although other plants are also known under this common name. The plant is cultivated for and used in freshwater aquariums.

ynonyms

"E". "paniculatus" Auct. not Micheki, 1881; "E". "rangeri" Hort.; "E". "platyphylla" Hort.; "E". "tocatins"; "E". "toguina"

Description

An aquatic plant with submergent leaves 40 - 60 cm long attached by petioles flatly triangular. Leaf blades are lanceolate or narrowly oval.

Distribution

"E". "bleheri" is known from the Amazon Basin, and was first exported as an aquarium plant in the 20th century from Brasil. It is now cultivated widely for wholesale.

Cultivation

"E". bleheri propagates by division or adventitious plantlets.

External links

* [http://www.echinodorus-online.de/English/Species/bleheri_E/bleheri_e.html Echinodorus site]