Taxon: Monochoria hastata (L.) Solms

A declared noxious weed by USDA-APHIS.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

FLª, MAª, NCª, OKª, SCª, TXª.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• arrow-leaf monochoria   (Source: Pl Res SEAs ) – English
  
• hastate-leaf-pondweed   (Source: Pl Res SEAs ) – English
  
• monochoria   (Source: USDA/APHIS ) – English
  

Economic importance:

• Human food: potential as vegetable   (fide Pl Res SEAs 8:210-212. 1993)
  
• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Atlas WWeed)
  

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

      Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China [s.]
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Indochina; Myanmar; Thailand
  Malesia: Indonesia - Java; Malaysia; New Guinea; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Northern Territory

      Naturalized:

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963–1968. Flora of Java. (F Java)
• Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants. Florida state list aquatic & wetland noxious weeds - from Department of Environmental Protection - on-line document. (FL AquaNoxweed)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia. (F Aust)
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
• Merrill, E. D. 1922–1926. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants. (F Philipp)
• Plant Protection and Quarantine Office. United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Federal noxious weed list. (USDA/APHIS)
• Siemonsma, J. S. & Kasem Piluek, eds. 1993. Vegetables. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 8:210–212.
• Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948–. Flora malesiana. (F Males)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Monochoria hastata.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Monochoria hastata. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for Monochoria hastata (L.) Solms:

• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium Map Display Interface
• ABIF: Australian Biodiversity Information Facility's Flora of Australia online
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Disseminule drawings: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?316384 (09 February 2010)

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