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Scientific Name: Ottelia alismoides
English Name: Duck lettuce, Water Plantain
Local/Bangla Name: Panikola (পানি কলা), Ram karola (রামকারোলা),
Shama kola (শামা কলা)
Photo: Mirko Tomasi (iNaturalist)
Classification:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Alismatales
Family: Hydrocharitaceae
Description:
This submerged herb takes root in the mud and features floating leaves that are broadly ovate, orbicular, or cordate-reniform, often translucent, with an obtuse apex and a cordate or rhomboid base. Its submerged leaves are elliptic-lanceolate with an acute apex and an attenuate base. The flowers are trimerous, white with a yellow-spotted base, and the fruits are ovoid to cylindrical.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
It typically inhabits shallow ponds, streams, stagnant pools, ditches, and lakes, and is distributed widely across Bangladesh.
Environment:
Freshwater.
Comments:
It is a submerged aquatic weed.
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