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Rhombifolia group
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Rhombifolia group

Sagittaria guayanensis

Sagittaria guayanensis, the Guyanese arrowhead, is a perennial aquatic plant species native to both the Old and New World. It has broadly hastate (arrow-shaped) leaves with ovate lobes.

The epithet has incorrectly been spelled "guyanensis" by some authors. The type locale is not Guyana but rather in the Guayana region in what is now eastern Venezuela, regarded as part of Colombia when the specimen was collected.

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3 branches of this group, most-observed first

Guyanese arrowhead

speciesSagittaria guayanensis

Amazon Sword Plant

speciesSagittaria rhombifolia

Sagittaria planitiana

speciesSagittaria planitiana

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1504197.