Hydrocharis

Frogbit
Hydrocharis morsus-ranae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Hydrocharitaceae
Subfamily: Hydrocharitoideae
Genus: Hydrocharis
L.
Type species
Hydrocharis morsus-ranae
Synonyms
  • Hydrocharella Spruce ex Benth. & Hook.f.
  • Hydromystria G.Mey.
  • Jalambicea (Cerv.) Cerv.
  • Limnobium Rich.
  • Rhizakenia Raf.
  • Trianea H.Karst.

Hydrocharis is a genus of aquatic plants in the family Hydrocharitaceae described as a genus by Carl Linnaeus in 1753. Species range across much of Europe and Asia, northwestern and central Africa, New Guinea, and the Americas from the eastern and central United States to Argentina and Chile. Species are naturalized in parts of California, northeastern North America, southern tropical Africa, and Australia.

The best known species is Hydrocharis morsus-ranae, commonly called common frogbit or European frog's-bit, and occasionally water-poppy.

Species

Five species are accepted.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Hydrocharis L." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 25 May 2025.
  2. ↑ Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 2: 1036 in Latin
  3. ↑ "Tropicos | Name - !Hydrocharis L." www.tropicos.org. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
  4. ↑ "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew". apps.kew.org. Archived from the original on 2020-08-03. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
  5. ↑ "Hydrocharis morsus-ranae [Morso di rana]". luirig.altervista.org (in Italian). Retrieved 2017-01-31.
  6. ↑ "Hydrocharis in Flora of China @ efloras.org". www.efloras.org. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
  7. ↑ "Hydrocharis in Flora of North America @ efloras.org". www.efloras.org. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
  8. ↑ Cook, C. D. K. and R. Lüönd. 1982. A revision of the genus Hydrocharis (Hydrocharitaceae). Aquatic Botany 14: 177--204.
  9. ↑ Roberts, M. L., R. L. Stuckey, and R. S. Mitchell. 1981. Hydrocharis morsus-ranae (Hydrocharitaceae) new to the United States. Rhodora 83: 147--148.