Rotala indica

TaxID: 162024

Basic Information

Rotala indica

Indian Toothcup, Indian rotala

Rotala indica is a species of flowering plant in the loosestrife family known by the common name Indian toothcup. It is native to Southeast Asia. This aquatic plant is best known as a popular aquarium plant and as a weed of rice fields. It is known as an introduced species and a weed in rice-growing regions in Congo, Italy, and Portugal, and California and Louisiana in the United States. The stems of the plant grow up to 30 or 40 cm long. Leaves are decussate, arranged oppositely in perpendicular pairs along the stems. The leaves are oval with thick, whitish, cartilaginous margins and measure up to 2 cm long. Flowers occur in leaf axils singly or in short, spikelike inflorescences. Each has four triangular sepals and four tiny pink petals.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Streptophyta

Magnoliopsida

Myrtales

Lythraceae

Rotala

indica

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Photos (5 photos)

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(c) Keita Watanabe@BY-NC
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(c) Sadie Hickey@BY-NC
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Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (1 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Timor-Leste Quarantine pests —

Distribution (22 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Country Status State
Afghanistan Present —
China Present —
Hong Kong, China Present —
Indonesia Present —
India Present —
Italy Present —
Japan Present —
Republic of Korea Present —
Lao People's Democratic Republic Present —
Sri Lanka Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

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