Taxon: Rotala indica (Willd.) Koehne

• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (aquarium plant fide Dict Gard)
  
• Weed   (fide Atlas WWeed)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Middle Asia: Tajikistan
  China: China - Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Hokkaido [s.w.], Honshu, Kyushu, Ryukyu Islands, Shikoku; Korea; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Nepal; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Philippines

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Caucasus: Azerbaijan
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Italy
  Southwestern Europe: Portugal
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Louisiana
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California

• also cultivated

References:

• Baldwin, B. G. et al., eds. The Jepson manual: vascular plants of California (on-line resource).
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• Godfrey, R. K. & J. W. Wooten. 1979–1981. Aquatic and wetland plants of southeastern United States, 2 vol.
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Press, J. R. et al. 2000–. Annotated checklist of the flowering plants of Nepal (on-line resource).
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Saldanha, C. J. & D. H. Nicolson. 1976. Flora of Hassan district.
• Thieret, J. W. 1972. Rotala indica (Lythraceae) in Louisiana. Sida 5:45.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Rotala indica.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Rotala indica.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Rotala indica.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Peplis indica Willd. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Rotala indica (Willd.) Koehne:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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.

Images:

• Disseminule drawings: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing

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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