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Volume 64, Issue 2, December 2022

Articles

Limnocharis Bonpl. (Alismataceae): a new generic record to Karnataka state, India

https://doi.org/10.20324/nelumbo/v64/2022/172348

Published 2023-02-20

  • Ningaraj S. Makanur
    • ,
  • K. Kotresha

Ningaraj S. Makanur
Taxonomy and Floristic Laboratory, Department of UG, PG and Research in Botany, Karnatak University’s, Karnatak Science College, Dharwad - 580001, Karnataka

K. Kotresha
Taxonomy and Floristic Laboratory, Department of UG, PG and Research in Botany, Karnatak University’s, Karnatak Science College, Dharwad - 580001, Karnataka

Abstract

The genus Limnocharis Bonpl. (Alismataceae) is reported here as a new record for Karnataka state based on a collection of L. flava (L.) Buchenau, a species commonly known as water cabbage or yellow burrhead, from the riparian vegetation of Tungabhadra river in Haveri district. Description, photo plate and details on the distribution of the species are provided here.

Keywords

Haveri, Karnataka, Limnocharis, Ranebennur, Riparian and Tungabhadra

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