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Common Name : Water hyacinth
Family : Pontederiaceae
A free-floating or partly rooting perennial
aquatic herb.
With numerous, long, fibrous roots, short leafy.
In rosettes, spoon or paddle-shaped, apex
rounded, 5-20 cm wide; petioles turbinately
swollen and spongy, enabling the plant to float.
Mauve, lilac or blue, funnel-shaped, 2.5-3.8 cm
long.
Capsule, many-seeded.
Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms.
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