Taxon: Helanthium tenellum (Mart. ex Schult. f.) Britton

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

Species on the following lists:

• Center for Plant Conservation (as Echinodorus parvulus)
  
• Check conservation status and distribution in NatureServe Explorer database

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (aquarium plant fide Dict Gard, as Echinodorus tenellus; F Neotrop 64:11. 1994, as Echinodorus tenellus)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Vermont
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Kansas
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Veracruz
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Cuba; Dominican Republic; Jamaica
  Mesoamerica: Guatemala; Nicaragua
  Northern South America: Guyana; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador
  Southern South America: Argentina - Corrientes

• also cultivated

Synonyms:

• (≡) Alisma tenellum Mart. ex Schult. f. (basionym)
  
• (=) Echinodorus parvulus Engelm.
  
• (≡) Echinodorus tenellus (Mart. ex Schult. f.) Buchenau
  

Check other web resources for Helanthium tenellum (Mart. ex Schult. f.) Britton:

• 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 del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• 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:

• Fruits: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• 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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