Pontederia L.

Native to:

Afghanistan, Alabama, Andaman Is., Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arkansas, Assam, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Borneo, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Cambodia, Caprivi Strip, Central African Repu, Chad, Chile Central, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Congo, Connecticut, Costa Rica, Cuba, Delaware, District of Columbia, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hainan, Honduras, Illinois, India, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Kansas, Kentucky, Kenya, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krym, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Louisiana, Madagascar, Maine, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Maluku, Manchuria, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nebraska, Nepal, New Brunswick, New Guinea, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New South Wales, New York, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Carolina, North Caucasus, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Pakistan, Panamá, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Philippines, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Queensland, Québec, Rhode I., Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Carolina, South Dakota, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Tennessee, Texas, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vermont, Vietnam, West Himalaya, West Virginia, Western Australia, Wisconsin, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Arizona, Aruba, Azores, Bahamas, Bermuda, Burundi, California, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Caroline Is., Cayman Is., Colorado, Comoros, Cook Is., Corse, Czechoslovakia, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, France, Free State, Gulf States, Haiti, Hawaii, Italy, KwaZulu-Natal, Lebanon-Syria, Leeward Is., Maldives, Marianas, Marquesas, Marshall Is., Mauritius, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Nauru, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Zealand North, Norfolk Is., Oman, Palestine, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Rodrigues, Romania, Réunion, Samoa, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Society Is., Solomon Is., South Australia, South China Sea, Spain, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Turkey, Vanuatu, Victoria, Virginia, Windward Is., Yemen

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• (2018). https://phytokeys.pensoft.net/article/27652/. epublication.
• Govaerts, R. (2004). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-54382. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.