Rotala rotundifolia
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?Rotala rotundifolia Conservation status: Secure |
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Rotala rotundifolia (Buch.-Ham. ex Roxb.) Koehne |
Rotala rotundifolia is a classic aquarium plant. While its origins are in southeast Asia, where it grows as a weed in rice paddies and wet soils, it now can be found through many parts of the United States. In the U.S., it was introduced with rice seeds shipped to the southeastern United States. This plant can be differentiated from the closely related R. indica by the differences in the two species' inflorescences. R. rotundifolia bears groups of terminal inflorescence while R. indica has solitary flowers on the axis of the leaves. R. rotundifolia is now one of the most commonly available aquarium plants