- Pronunciation: nim-FOID-ees in-DEE-cah
- Common Name: Marshwort
- Derivation: Nymphoides: Like the waterlily indica: 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
