Eichhornia azurea
Anchored water hyacinth


Eichhornia azurea

Família/Family: Pontederiaceae

Grupo/Group: Monocotiledón/Monocotyledon.

Distribución nativa/Native range: Nativa de las Antillas Mayores (La Española, Cuba), sur de México, Centroamérica y Sudamérica. / Native to the Greater Antilles (Hispaniola, Cuba), southern Mexico, Central America and South America.

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ESTATUS EN LA ISLA DE PUERTO RICO/STATUS ON THE ISLAND OF PUERTO RICO
Presencia/Occurence: Registro por error/Recorded in error.

Historia y distribución/History and distribution: A false record. Reported for Puerto Rico by Liogier & Martorell (1982, 2000) as occurring in a pond near Cayey, and probably elsewhere in Puerto Rico. No specimens seen by Acevedo-Rodríguez & Strong (2005). Axelrod (2011) cited two specimens from the NY herbarium (Liogier 33264, Caudales s.n.), but both of these specimens were re-determined as the introduced E. crassipes by D.L.J. de Sousa in 2015.

TAXONOMÍA/TAXONOMY
Nombre científico con autores/Scientific name with authors: Eichhornia azurea (Sw.) Kunth

Sinónimos/Synonyms: Pontederia azurea Sw.




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