Butomopsis

Butomopsis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Alismataceae
Genus: Butomopsis
Kunth
Synonyms
  • Tenagocharis Hochst.

Butomopsis is a genus of plants in the family Alismataceae. It contains only one species, Butomopsis latifolia (D.Don) Kunth.[1][2][3] native to tropical Africa (from Senegal to Sudan to Mozambique), South Asia (India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh), Southeast Asia (Java, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Yunnan) and northern Australia (Queensland and Northern Territory).

References

  1. Karl Sigismund Kunth. 1841. Enumeratio Plantarum Omnium Hucusque Cognitarum 3: 165, Butomopsis latifolia
  2. David Don. 1825. Prodromus Florae Nepalensis 22–23. 1825, Butomus latifolius
  3. Buchenau, Franz Georg Philipp. 1868. Abhandlungen herausgegeben vom Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereine zu Bremen 2: 1& 5, Tenagocharis latifolia

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