Ludwigia
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 Ludwigia lemnithoechiza
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Ludwigia (primrose-willow, water-purslane, or water-primrose) is a genus of about 75 species of aquatic plants with a cosmopolitan but mainly tropical distribution.
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The genus was named by Carolus Linnaeus after Christian Gottlieb Ludwig (1709-1773), a German botanist, who was apparently not amused by this honour.
[edit] External resources
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=13118
- http://www.itis.usda.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=27334
- http://www.pondplants.com/FAQ_Plants_Ludwigia.html
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