Hanguana anthelminthica (Blume ex Schult. & Schult.f.) Masam.

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CLASSIFICATIONS AND CHARACTERISTICS

Plant DivisionPlant Growth FormLifespan (in Singapore)

Angiosperms (Flowering Seed Plants) (Monocotyledon)

Herbaceous Plant, Creeper

Perennial

Mode of Nutrition	Autotrophic
Maximum Height	3 m

BIOGEOGRAPHY

Native DistributionNative HabitatPreferred Climate Zone

Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia and Palau

Terrestrial (Freshwater Swamp Forest, Riverine), Aquatic (Freshwater Pond / Lake / River)

Tropical

DESCRIPTION AND ETHNOBOTANY

Growth FormFoliageFlowers

It is an aquatic or terrestrial, perennial herbaceous plant up to 3 m tall.

Its grass-like, fleshy, stalked leaves have leaf blades that taper at both ends. Its leaf blades are also sometimes purple or red on the underside, and 20–127 by 1.5–17.5 cm, with dense venation.

Its green or yellow flowers grow on a branched flowering shoot.

Fruit	Its round fruits ripen from shiny red and dark purple to black, are up to 2.5 cm wide and contain one seed.
Habitat	It grows as an aquatic or terrestrial plant in lowland swamp forest, and hill forest up to 1,500 m altitude. It also grows in morasses, slow-moving freshwater, and along lake-shores and rivers, or humid forests.
Associated Fauna	It is an important habitat for waterfowl such as the common moorhen, purple swamphens, as well as habitats for aquatic insects and fish at their dangling roots, and provides perches for dragonflies.
Taxonomy	Hanguana anthelminthica (Blume ex Schult. & Schult.f.) Masam. was previously misidentified as Hanguana malayana (Jack) Merr. (Leong-Škorničková, J. & Niissalo, M.A., 2017).
Cultivation	It can be propagated by seed and stolons.

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