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Common name

English: Water snowflake

German: Indische Seekanne

Mandarin: 金银莲花 (jin yin lian hua)

Portuguese: Soldanela-d'água

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2659)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2572)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2167)

      Order: Solanales (99)

        Family: Menyanthaceae (3)(family description)

          Genus: Nymphoides (2)

            Epithet: indica (L.) Kuntze (12)

indica => from or referring in some way to India

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habitat: hydrophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: white

External links

Check for Nymphoides indica at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

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