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Hydrocleys

water poppy
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Hydrocleys martii
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Hydrocleys nymphoides
Curtis's Botanical Magazine (1833)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Alismataceae
Genus: Hydrocleys
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Type species
Hydrocleys commersonii (syn of H. nymphoides)
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Species

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Hydrocleys is a genus of aquatic plants in the Alismataceae, native to the Western Hemisphere, though one is naturalized elsewhere and sold as an ornamental for decorative ponds and artificial aquatic habitats. At present (May 2014), five species are recognized:


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