Common names: None

Family: Araceae

Could be confused with: Cryptocoryne.

Native distribution: Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh.

Species commonly cultivated:
Lagenandra lancifolia (Schott) Thwaites (Sri Lanka, India)
L. meeboldii (Engl.) C.E.C. Fisch. (India)
L. ovata (L.) Thwaites (Sri Lanka, India)
L. thwaitesii Engl. (Sri Lanka, India)

Adventive distribution: None.

Weed status: Not weedy.

Habit: Amphibious rosette plant.

Brief description: Perennial. Leaves in a rosette; leaf blade linear to cordate, involute in bud (cf. Cryptocoryne); margin entire or undulate; distinctly heterophyllous between emersed and submersed growth forms. Inflorescence a short spadix, enclosed in dilated base (kettle) of spathe; spathe tubular, limb ovate to elongate, usually twisted.

Natural habitat: Margins of streams and ponds.

Additional comments: Lagenandra contains 15 species, but only a few species are cultivated regularly for the aquarium or pond plant trade.