Ottelia alismoides: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Alismatales
- Family
- Hydrocharitaceae
- Genus
- Ottelia
- Species
- Ottelia alismoides
- Scientific Name
- Ottelia alismoides
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Ottelia alismoides
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.
...Ottelia alismoides in languages:
- Chinese
- 水車前草
- English
- duck-lettuce
- Japanese
- ミズオオバコ
- Korean
- 물질경이
- Polish
- otelia żabieńcowata
- Russian
- Оттелия частуховидная
- Thai
- สันตะวาใบพาย
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Ottelia acuminata
- Ottelia alismoides
- Ottelia balansae
- Ottelia brachyphylla
- Ottelia brasiliensis
- Ottelia cordata
- Ottelia cylindrica
- Ottelia emersa
- Ottelia exserta
- Ottelia fengshanensis
- Ottelia fischeri
- Ottelia guanyangensis
- Ottelia kunenensis
- Ottelia lisowskii
- Ottelia mesenterium
- Ottelia muricata
- Ottelia obtusifolia
- Ottelia ovalifolia
- Ottelia profundecordata
- Ottelia scabra
- Ottelia ulvifolia
- Ottelia verdickii






























































































































































