Hydrocotyle

Taxobox
name = "Hydrocotyle"

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image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Hydrocotyle bowlesioides"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Apiales
familia = Araliaceae
subfamilia = Hydrocotyloideae
genus = "Hydrocotyle"cite web
url = http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb/bd/africa/genre.php?langue=an&id=2141
title = "Hydrocotyle" L.
accessdate = 2008-04-25
format = HTML
work = African Plants Database
publisher = South African National Biodiversity Institute, the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève and Tela Botanica. ] cite web
url = http://plants.usda.gov/java/ClassificationServlet?source=profile&symbol=HYDRO2&display=31
title = Classification for Kingdom Plantae Down to Genus "Hydrocotyle" L.
accessdate = 2008-04-25
author = Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
authorlink = Natural Resources Conservation Service
format = HTML
work = The PLANTS Database
publisher = United States Department of Agriculture, ] cite web
url = http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?5898
title = Genus: "Hydrocotyle" L.
accessdate = 2008-04-25
author = Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN)
authorlink = Germplasm Resources Information Network
date = 2006-04-02
format = HTML
work = Taxonomy for Plants
publisher = USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program, National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland ]
genus_authority = L.
subdivision_ranks = Species

"Hydrocotyle" sometimes called water pennywort,cite web
url = http://plants.ifas.ufl.edu/hydrpic.html
title = Hydrocotyle "species"
accessdate = 2008-04-25
author = University of Florida Herbarium
authorlink = University of Florida Herbarium
date = 2005
format = HTML
work = Aquatic, Wetland and Invasive Plant Particulars and Photographs
publisher = University of Florida, Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants] Indian Pennywort, Marsh Penny, Thick-leaved Pennywort and even White Rotcite web
url = http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/h/hydcol46.html
title = Hydrocotyle
accessdate = 2008-04-25
author = M. Grieve
authorlink = Maud Grieve
year = 1931
format = HTML
work = A Modern Herbal
publisher = © Copyright Protected 1995-2008 Botanical.com] is a genus of prostrate, perennialcite web
url = http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=115990
title = Hydrocotyle Linn.
accessdate = 2008-04-25
author = Flora of China
authorlink = Flora of North America
format = HTML
work = Family List ] aquatic or semi-aquatic plants formerly classified in the family Apiaceae, now in the family Araliaceae.

Description

Water pennyworts, "Hydrocotyles" are very common. They have long creeping stems that often form dense mats, often in and near ponds, lakes, rivers, marshes and some species in coastal areas by the sea.cite web
url = http://www.aluka.org/action/showCompilationPage?doi=10.5555/AL.AP.COMPILATION.PLANT-NAME-SPECIES.HYDROCOTYLE.BONARIENSIS
title = "Hydrocotyle bonariensis" Lam. [family UMBELLIFERAE]
accessdate = 2008-04-25
author = Aluka
authorlink = Aluka
format = HTML
work = African Plants
doi = 10.5555/AL.AP.COMPILATION.PLANT-NAME-SPECIES.HYDROCOTYLE.BONARIENSIS
publisher = Ithaka Harbors, Inc] cite journal
last =Schardosim
first =Alecsandro
coauthors =Klein Vanilde, Citadini-Zanette, Robson dos Santos
title =Florística e estrutura comunitária de restinga herbácea no município de Araranguá, Santa Catarina
journal =Biotemas
volume =20
issue =3
pages =15-26
date = September 2007
url = http://www.biotemas.ufsc.br/pdf/volume203/p15a26.pdf
language = Spanish
id =ISSN 0103 – 1643
accessdate = 2008-04-25 ] ;Leaves: Simple, with small leafy outgrowth at the base, kidney shaped to round. Leaf edges are scalloped. ;Flowers: Flower clusters are simple and flat-topped or rounded. Involucral bracts Inconspicuous bracts at the base of each flower. Indistinct sepals.;Fruits and reproduction: Elliptical to round with thin ridges and no oil tubes (Vitta) which is characteristic in the fruit of umbelliferous plants.:The prostrate plants reproduce by seed and by sending roots from stem nodes.cite web
url = http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/URC/bhutanumbels/Hydrocotyle.htm
title = Hydrocotyle L
accessdate = 2008-04-25
last = Watson
first = Mark F.
format = HTML
work = Flora of Bhutan]

elected species

The "Hydrocotyle" genus has between 75 and 100 speciescite web
url = http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=115990
title = 1. "Hydrocotyle Linnaeus"
accessdate = 2008-04-25
author = Flora of China
authorlink = Flora of North America
format = HTML
volume = 14
work = Family List ] that grow in tropical and temperate regions worldwide and a few species have made it into the world of cultivated ornamental aquatics.cite web
url = http://www.wetwebmedia.com/PlantedTksSubWebIndex/hydrocotyle.htm
title = Pennywort, Genus "Hydrocotyle"
accessdate = 2008-04-25
format = HTML
work = The Aquarium Gardener Series] A list of selected species:cite web
url = http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=101&taxon_id=115990
title = "Hydrocotyle" Linn.
accessdate = 2008-04-25
author = Taiwan Plant Names
authorlink = Flora of North America
format = HTML
volume = III
work = Family List ] cite web
url = http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=12&taxon_id=115990
title = "Hydrocotyle" L.
accessdate = 2008-04-25
author = Madagascar Catalog
authorlink = Flora of North America
format = HTML
work = Genus Page ] cite web
url = http://weeds.massey.ac.nz/weeds.asp?pid=99&sf=common
title = hydrocotyle
accessdate = 2008-04-25
format = HTML
work = New Zealand Weeds
publisher = Massey University: Institute of Natural Resources]
*"Hydrocotyle americana" L. -- American marshpennywort
*"Hydrocotyle batrachium" Hance
*"Hydrocotyle benguetensis" Elm.
*"Hydrocotyle bonariensis" Lam. -- largeleaf pennywort
*"Hydrocotyle bowlesioides" Mathias & Constance -- largeleaf marshpennywort
*"Hydrocotyle calcicola"
*"Hydrocotyle dichondroides" Makino
*"Hydrocotyle dielsiana"
*"Hydrocotyle heteromeria" -- waxweed
*"Hydrocotyle himalaica"
*"Hydrocotyle hirsuta" Sw. -- yerba de clavo
*"Hydrocotyle hookeri"
*"Hydrocotyle javanica" Thunb.
*"Hydrocotyle keelungensis" Liu, Chao & Chuang
*"Hydrocotyle leucocephala" Cham. & Schltdl. -- Brazilian pennywort
*"Hydrocotyle mannii" Hook.f.
*"Hydrocotyle microphylla" A.Cunn.
*"Hydrocotyle moschata" G. Forst. -- musky marshpennywort
*"Hydrocotyle nepalensis" Hook.
*"Hydrocotyle novae-zelandiae" DC.
*"Hydrocotyle prolifera" Kellogg -- whorled marshpennywort
*"Hydrocotyle pseudoconferta"
*"Hydrocotyle pusilla" A. Rich. -- tropical marshpennywort
*"Hydrocotyle ramiflora"
*"Hydrocotyle ranunculoides" L. f. -- floating marshpennywort, floating marshpennywort, floating pennyroyal
*"Hydrocotyle salwinica"
*"Hydrocotyle setulosa" Hayata
*"Hydrocotyle sibthorpioides" Lam. -- lawn marshpennywort
*"Hydrocotyle tripartita"
*"Hydrocotyle umbellata" L. -- manyflower marshpennywort, umbrella pennyroyal
*"Hydrocotyle verticillata" Thunb. -- whorled marshpennywort, whorled marshpennywort, whorled pennyroyal
*"Hydrocotyle vulgaris" L.
*"Hydrocotyle wilfordii"
*"Hydrocotyle wilsonii"

Distribution

"Hydrocotyle" grow in wet and damp places in the tropics and the temperate zones.

References

External links

*ITIS|ID=29512|taxon="Hydrocotyle"|year=2008|date=25 April
*cite book
last = Lamarck
first = Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de
authorlink = Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
coauthors = Poiret, Jean Louis Marie
title = Encyclopédie méthodique: botanique /Par m. le chevalier de Lamarck.
url = http://www.botanicus.org/item/31753000215191
series = Vol. 3
date = 1783-1808
id = QK7.L36 1783-1808
chapter = HYD
chapterurl = http://www.botanicus.org/bibliography/b11774435