Scientific Name: Nymphoides indica

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  • Pronunciation:
    nim-FOID-ees in-DEE-cah
  • Common Name:
    Marshwort
  • Derivation:
    Nymphoides: Like the waterlilyindica: not sure (indicus - from India)
  • Type:
    Herb aquatic , perennial
  • Family:
    MENYANTHACEAE
  • Flowers:
    white, numerous, heterostylous; pedicels 2–8 cm long, often emergent through the radial slit in leaves. Calyx 6–8 mm long. Corolla to 18 mm long, white with yellow or orange at base, bearded inside.
  • Fruit:
    Seeds 1–2 mm long, smooth, straw-coloured.
  • Vegetation Type:
    Wallum Woodland, freshwater ponds and creeks In still to slow-flowing freshwater. Pools, lagoons of rivers creeks, floodplains.
  • Species List:
    BSDoonan, Cranks Creek, aquatic plant,
Identification Notes

floating stolons and leaves; stems to several metres long; leaves and inflorescence terminal but sometimes stems branched. producing thick and blunt banana-shaped roots underneath the leaves. Leaves with lamina almost circular with a radial slit, to 30 cm diam., margins entire; shortly petiolate.

Landscaping Notes

Good pond plant