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Aquatic communities include camalotes, primarily of the genus Eichhornia and Reussia, onagraceae like Victoria cruziana (irupé) with large plate-shaped leaves and white flowers with many petals; we also find Cyperus giganteus (pirí), Typha latifolia and T. Domingensis (totoras) and the beautiful blue-flowered pontederiacea Pontederia lanceolata (cucharero).
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Pickerelweed, Pontederia cordata, often adds color to the surface waters.
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The blue pickerel-weed (_Pontederia_) is the type of a family of which there are few common representatives (Fig. 84, _I_, _K_).
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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_Pontederia_, each flower has two different lengths of stamens, both differing from the style of the same flower.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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The _Pontederia crassipes_ of the Amazon, which develops its floating bladders when grown in water, but aborts them rapidly when grown on land, and seems to retain this power of adaptation to the environment for an indefinite period of time, must act in each case upon an unconscious memory based upon past experience.
The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895
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Pontederia cordata* (pickerel-weed), only near Oldtown, 1857.
The Maine Woods 1858
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I wrote to you a few days ago to thank you about Pontederia, and now
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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Pontederia, for I am now printing a small book on heterostyled plants, and on some allied subjects.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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Brakes, and the withering and blackened Skunk-Cabbage and Hellebore, and, by the river-side, the already blackening Pontederia.
Excursions Henry David Thoreau 1839
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(Pontederia cordata) are also in great profusion out in the bogs and grassy floodplains along the Mullica and Batsto Rivers.
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