Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms

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Herbariua of Newberry College
Eichhornia crassipes (Martius) Solms-Laubach
in A. & C. deCandolle
det. Charles N. Horn
1989
PERU
Loreto
PONTEDERIACEAE
Eichhornia crassipes (	S*	rtwL.
Prov.:Maynas. Padre Isla in Rio Amazonas below
Iquitos, inundated ^coch^'with mostly floating
vegetation; alt. 120 m.
Floating herb, flower’s lilac, with blue spot;
with yellow center on upper petal.
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A. Gentry, N. Jaramillo, 22,129
& J. Ruiz C.___22 May 1978
Coller te<l under the auspices of ihc Flora of Peru project, a collaborative effort of the Missouri
Botanical Garden and Field Museum of Natural History in conjunction with the L'niversidad
Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and the Universidad Nacinnal ile Amazonia Teruana. Field work
supported by the National Science Foundation.
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