Eichhornia heterosperma Alexander

Herbarium of Newberry College
PLANTS OF GUYANA, SOUTH AMERICA
Eichhornia heterosperma E. J. Alexander in Smith
PONTEDERIACEAE
Plants abundant in shallow, wide roadside ditch between highway and roadside hoses. Plants
in less than 20 ca of water. Steas subaersed with leaves held vertically out of water.
Flowers violet, but mostly wilted at 3:30 pa. No nature fruits noted, »any sterile plants,
soae with subaersed linear leaves.
GUYANA. Demerara District: Roadside ditches (trenches)
along coastal highway just outside town of Better Hope. ^
About 10 km (by air) east of Georgetown. Water
distinctly eutrophic with algae growing on submersed
vegetation.
with John Wiersema & Tim McDowell
7 MARCH 1991	Charles N. Horn # 4541
Plants collected in cooperation with the Saithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C., USA),
University of Guyana (Georgetown), and Newberry College (South Carolina, USA)