Echinodorus tunicatus

Species of plant

Echinodorus tunicatus

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Monocots
Order:  | Alismatales
Family:  | Alismataceae
Genus:  | Echinodorus
Species:  |

E. tunicatus

Binomial name
Echinodorus tunicatus

Small in N. Am. Fl. 17(1):48, 1909

Echinodorus tunicatus is a species of aquatic plants in the family Alismataceae.

In Rataj's taxonomy E. tunicatus is in Section Longipetali, Subgenus Echinodorus

Sometimes seen as Queen of Hearts

## Description

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Leaves upright, up to 90 cm long, blades distinctly cordate, 15 – 30 cm long x 10 – 23 cm wide, petioles glabrous or muricate under the blade. The pellucid lines, visible under magnification, form a network that is unrelated to the pattern of the veins.[citation needed]

Flowering stem tem 70 – 120 cm long, usually straight, cylindrical or costate below, triangular between the whorls. Inflorescence racemose, having 5 - 7 whorls containing 12 - 25 flowers each. Bracts at the base ovate and lengthened to a long point, up to 6 cm long with broad membranous margins. Pedicels 2 – 3 cm long, sepals green, later yellow with about 30 ribs, during ripening enlarging to a length of 10 – 12 mm and fully covering the aggregate fruit. Petals white, 5 – 8 mm long, corolla 1.6 - 1.8 cm in diameter, about 30 stamens. Aggregate fruit 1 - 1.5 cm in diameter, achenes claviform about 3 mm long x 1 mm wide, usually with 3 facial ribs and 3 glands in an oblique row in the upper half of the body. Stylar beak about 1 mm long.[citation needed]

## Distribution

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Central America. First gathered in Panama in 1908, but now also known from Brazil, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.[citation needed]

Propagated by division or adventitious plantlets.[citation needed]

## See also

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* List of plants of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil

## External links

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* Echinodorus site[permanent dead link]

Taxon identifiers

Echinodorus tunicatus|

* Wikidata: Q5332484
* BOLD: 550679
* CoL: 6DVMC
* EoL: 1087899
* GBIF: 5328782
* iNaturalist: 356221
* IPNI: 308183-2
* NCBI: 430108
* Open Tree of Life: 424886
* Plant List: kew-305338
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:308183-2
* Tropicos: 900104
* WFO: wfo-0000766490