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Showing Aneilema esculentum
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- Plantae(reg.)
- Charophyta(div.)
- Equisetopsida(cl.)
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- Aneilema(gen.)
- esculentum(sp.)
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Type: "Madras; in oryzetis (Wallich; Wight n. 2843). Zeylania (Walker). Hongkong (Hance)? Australia (R. Brown n. 5737 partim)." "Wall.! Cat. 5208"
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APC Comment: An Asian taxon, now referred to Murdannia esculenta (Wall. ex C.B.Clarke) R.S.Rao & Kammathy, erroneously recorded for Australia by C.B.Clarke in A.C.P.de Candolle & A.L.P.P.de Candolle, Monogr. Phan. 3: 206 (1881) (fide M.D.Dassanayake, F.R.Fosberg & W.D.Clayton, Rev. Handb. Fl. Ceylon 14: 154 (2000)).