page_title: Limnophila (plant)
section_title: Systematics
hierarchical_section_title: Limnophila (plant) / Systematics
caption_attribution_description: English: I have multi parted and submerged leavers, down to 50cm. I grow pale brown, subglobose capsules, about 2.5mm long. I usually grow in rice fields, brackish waters or low elevations in Chinese provinces like Anhui, Guangdong, Jiangxi and Taiwan.
context_page_description: Limnophila is a genus of flowering plants in the family Plantaginaceae. It is distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. Species are known commonly as marshweeds.
  These are annual or perennial herbs. They grow in wet habitat, such as marshes, and some are aquatic. Some species are glandular and aromatic. Plants of the genus vary in form, from erect to prostrate, and with branching or unbranched stems. Submerged leaves are whorled; aerial leaves are whorled or oppositely arranged. The leaves are lance-shaped or pinnate, and the blades have smooth or serrated edges. Some species have flowers solitary in the leaf axils, and others have flowers in inflorescences. The sepals are arranged in a tubular calyx, and the corolla is tubular or funnel-shaped. The corolla has a lower lip with three lobes and an upper lip that is unlobed or double-lobed.
  Cabomba caroliniana, a plant in a different family, is noted for having leaves that resemble those of Limnophila.
context_section_description: There are about 40 species in the genus.
  Species include:
  Limnophila aquatica
  Limnophila aromatica – swampleaf, rice paddy herb
  Limnophila bangweolensis
  Limnophila barteri
  Limnophila borealis
  Limnophila ceratophylloides
  Limnophila chinensis – finger grass
  Limnophila connata
  Limnophila dasyantha
  Limnophila erecta
  Limnophila heterophylla
  Limnophila indica – Indian marshweed
  Limnophila repens
  Limnophila rugosa
  Limnophila sessiliflora – ambulia
  Limnophila tenera
caption: Limnophila heterophylla in China
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