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Caldesia
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Caldesia

Caldesia is a genus of aquatic plants. It includes three living species widespread across Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. The genus "has an extensive Oligocene through Pleistocene fossil record in Eurasia," and has been found in fossil strata of the United States (Idaho and Vermont) as well. Ten fossil species have been described for the genus.

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Caldesia grandis

speciesCaldesia grandis

Parnassus-leaved Water-plantain

speciesCaldesia parnassifolia

Caldesia janaki-ammaliae

speciesCaldesia janaki-ammaliae

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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 180235.