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Duck lettuce
Ottelia alismoides
About
Ottelia alismoides, commonly known as duck lettuce, is a species of aquatic plant native to Asia and northern Australia. Due to habitat loss and deterioration, it is endangered in China and Japan, although it is an invasive weed in America. Its genome has also been sequenced, resulting in a 6.45 Gb assembly to help study its unusual carbon metabolism mechanisms and aid in genetic conservation.
- Family
- Hydrocharitaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Ottelia alismoides
- Slug
- ottelia-alismoides
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Hydrocharitaceae
- Genus
- Ottelia
- Species
- alismoides
- Wikidata QID
- Q5787832
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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