Freshwater
Duck-Lettuce
Ottelia alismoides
Hydrocharitaceae
Facts
Care
We have no care for this plant yet. If you know how it thrives, you can suggest it.
Range
NativeIntroduced
Lives wild in Australia, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China, China Southeast, India, Indonesia, and 14 more countries.
Introduced to Egypt, Iraq, Italy, Sudan, Tanzania, and United States.
More about the species
Description
Ottelia alismoides, commonly known as duck lettuce, is a species of aquatic plant native to Asia and northern Australia. Due to habitat loss and deterioration, it is endangered in China and Japan, although it is an invasive weed in America. Its genome has also been sequenced, resulting in a 6.45 Gb assembly to help study its unusual carbon metabolism mechanisms and aid in genetic conservation.
Other names
Other scientific names
- Boottia alata
- Boottia bodinieri
- Boottia lanceolata
- Boottia thorelii
- Damasonium alismoides
- Damasonium javanicum
In other languages
- Ducklettuce, Waterplantain Ottelia
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