- Family:
- Pontederiaceae Kunth
- Genus:
- Pontederia L.
Pontederia vaginalis Burm.f.

Native to:
Afghanistan, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, India, Japan, Jawa, Korea, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Northern Territory, Pakistan, Philippines, Queensland, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Western Australia
Introduced into:
California, Fiji, Hawaii
Pontederia vaginalis Burm.f. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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s.coll. [Cat. no. 5095], India | K001104728 | Yes | |||
s.coll. [Cat. no. 5095], India | K001104730 | Yes | |||
Gomez, W. [Cat. no. 5095], Myanmar | K001104732 | Yes | |||
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 5095], Nepal | K001104731 | Yes | |||
s.coll. [Cat. no. 5095] | K001104727 | Yes | |||
s.coll. [Cat. no. 5095] | K001104726 | Yes | |||
s.coll. [Cat. no. 5095] | K001104725 | Yes | |||
s.coll. [Cat. no. 5095], India | K001104729 | Yes | |||
Feb 10, 2016 | Amin [SAN 116301], Sabah | Monochoria vaginalis | K001045607 | No |
First published in Fl. Indica: 80 (1768)
Not accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (2004). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-54382. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Monochoria vaginalis.]
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Ahmed, Z.U. (ed.) (2008). Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh 12: 1-505. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
- Pandey, R.P. & Dilwakar, P.G. (2008). An integrated check-list flora of Andaman and Nicobar islands, India Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany 32: 403-500.
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