Ludwigia: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Myrtales
- Family
- Onagraceae
- Genus
- Ludwigia
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Ludwigia
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Ludwigia (plant)
Ludwigia (primrose-willow, water-purslane, or water-primrose) is a genus of about 82 species of aquatic plants with a cosmopolitan but mainly tropical distribution.
Currently (2023), there is much debate among botanists and plant taxonomists as to the classification of many Ludwigia species. Botanists from the US Department of Agriculture are currently doing genetic analyses on plants from the Western US and South America to better classify members of this genus.
The genus was named by Carl Linnaeus after Christian Gottlieb Ludwig (1709-1773).
...Ludwigia in languages:
- Chinese
- 水丁香屬
- Czech
- zakucelka
- English
- Primrose-willows
- Estonian
- ludviigiad
- Finnish
- rusolehdet
- German
- Heusenkräuter
- German
- Ludwigien
- Japanese
- チョウジタデ/ルドヴィジア属
- Korean
- 여뀌바늘속
- Russian
- Людвигия
- Swedish
- ludwigior
- Thai
- สกุล เทียนนา
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Ludwigia abyssinica
- Ludwigia adscendens
- Ludwigia affinis
- Ludwigia africana
- Ludwigia alata
- Ludwigia alternifolia
- Ludwigia anastomosans
- Ludwigia arcuata
- Ludwigia bonariensis
- Ludwigia brenanii
- Ludwigia brevipes
- Ludwigia caparosa
- Ludwigia curtissii
- Ludwigia decurrens
- Ludwigia dodecandra
- Ludwigia elegans
- Ludwigia epilobioides
- Ludwigia erecta
- Ludwigia filiformis
- Ludwigia foliobracteolata
- Ludwigia glandulosa
- Ludwigia grandiflora
- Ludwigia helminthorrhiza
- Ludwigia hexapetala
- Ludwigia hirtella
- Ludwigia hookeri
- Ludwigia humboldtiana
- Ludwigia hyssopifolia
- Ludwigia inclinata
- Ludwigia irwinii
- Ludwigia jussiaeoides
- Ludwigia lanceolata
- Ludwigia laruotteana
- Ludwigia latifolia
- Ludwigia leptocarpa
- Ludwigia linearis
- Ludwigia linifolia
- Ludwigia longifolia
- Ludwigia major
- Ludwigia maritima
- Ludwigia martii
- Ludwigia microcarpa
- Ludwigia multinervia
- Ludwigia myrtifolia
- Ludwigia nervosa
- Ludwigia octovalvis
- Ludwigia ovalis
- Ludwigia palustris
- Ludwigia peploides
- Ludwigia perennis
- Ludwigia peruviana
- Ludwigia pilosa
- Ludwigia polycarpa
- Ludwigia prostrata
- Ludwigia ravenii
- Ludwigia repens
- Ludwigia rigida
- Ludwigia sedioides
- Ludwigia sedoides
- Ludwigia senegalensis
- Ludwigia sericea
- Ludwigia spathulata
- Ludwigia sphaerocarpa
- Ludwigia suffruticosa
- Ludwigia taiwanensis
- Ludwigia tepicana
- Ludwigia tomentosa
- Ludwigia torulosa
- Ludwigia virgata
- Ludwigia × kentiana
- Ludwigia × lacustris
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