Images of Plants Associated With Bolivian Wetland and Aquatic Habitats

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PTERIDOPHYTES:

Equisetaceae

Equisetum giganteum: This page contains two images: a photo of the habit, and a close-up of the stem.

Image 1: 4332 X 278 pixels.
Image2: 227 X 364 pixels.

(Images scanned from slides).

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Salviniaceae

Salvinia auriculata Complex: This page contains two images: a photo of the habit, and a close-up of the sporocarps

Image 1: 290 X 149 pixels.
Image 2: 205 X 147 pixels

(Images scanned from slides).

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DICOTS:

Haloragaceae

Myriophyllum mattogrossense Hoehne: To date, we have encountered two populations of this species in Bolivia (new record for the country). Both were encountered in fairly clear, swiftly moving water in systems near the base of the Andes.

Image 1: Habit.

Image 2: Closer view of the terrestrial habit.

Image 3: Close-up of the terrestrial form.

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Lentibulariaceae

Genlisea guianensis N. E. Brown: To this point, we have encountered this species only once in Bolivia.Specimen Data: NR 3614.
August 16, 1996. Collected by: N. Ritter, G. Crow, M. Garvizu, M. Ritter & J. Crow. Parque Nacional Noel Kempff Mercado. Serrania de Huanchaca ("La Meseta"); east of Los Fierros. Elevation: ca. 760 meters. Semi-aquatic, emergent herb. Growing along the edges of the stream. Common. Corolla purple-blue. Fruits present. The stream bottom varies from exposed bedrock to sand. Numerous small pools are present. Surrounding vegetation: Cerrado.

Habit

Scanned from an herbarium specimen from the New York Botanic Garden. (Royan #45206). Specimen from British Guiana.

Image Size: 622 X 1039 pixels.

Scale: 100%.

Close-up of the Inflorescence

Close-up of the inflorescence. Scanned from the same specimen as above.

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Scale: 228%.

Menyanthaceae
Nymphoides indica (L.) O. Kuntze	Close up of the flower. Scanned from a slide.	Image Size: 435 X 587 pixels.

Nymphaeaeceae
Nymphaea amazonum Mart. & Zucc.	The most commonly encountered Bolvian waterlilly.	Image 1: 494 X 336 pixels. Image 2: 379 X 254 pixels.
Nymphaea belophylla Trickett	A rare and poorly known species, this population of N. belophylla was encountered at Laguna Cáceres in the Bolivian Pantanal.	Image 1: 440 X 287 pixels. Image 2: 341 X 524 pixels.
Nymphaea oxypetala Planchon	This species is distinctive in that almost all of its leaves are completely submerged. N. oxypetala is known from only a handful of sites; the population presented here constitutes the first record for Boliva. Since encountering this population in 1996, we have discovered two more populations of N. oxypetala in the Bolivian portion of the Grand Pantanal.	Image 1: 341 X 524 pixels. Image 2: 394 X 254 pixels. Image 3: 155 X 202 pixels.

MONOCOTS:

Mayacaceae
*Mayaca longipes*

Created: January 14, 1998
Last Modified: May 26, 1999

Comments, Suggestions, Complaints to: Nur Ritter: npr@hopper.unh.edu