Created by Jayaindra Fernando – For heritage and conservation.
Family – Pontederiaceae
Eichhornia crassipes , Family-Pontederiaceae , Common name-Water hyacinth, japan jabara, ජපන් ජබර , Origin-Invasive , Habit-Aquatic , Ecology-Stagnant water ,Comment-originated from Amazon Basin, South America spreading since the 1800s. Forms dense colonies that block sunlight and crowd out native species., Referance-R14-263
163.02. MONOCHORIA Presl
M.hastata (L.) Solms-Laub. [Monochoria hastaefolia Presl] S:di ya-habarala, jabara
M.vaginalis (Burm. f.) Presl [Monochoria vaginalis var. plantaginea (Roxb.) Solms-Laub.] S:diya-habarala, jabara
Reference – A CHECK LIST OF THE FLOWERING PLANTS; Lilani Kumudini Senaratna, B.Sc. (Colombo) M.Phil. (OUSL), Department of Botany, The Open University of Sri Lanka, Nawala, Nugegoda. Published by National Science Foundation 47/5, Maitland, Place Colombo 7 SRI LANKA
Maintained for the benefit of all naturalists interested in the flora of Sri Lanka. This page is dedicated to great people who documented & brought flora of Sri Lanka to the student as well as the lay Sri Lankans over the years, namely Henry Trimen, A H G Alston & Joseph Dalton Hooker(1893-1931), Susan George Pulimood & Anna K Joshua (1941),Dorothy Fernando (1953), T B Worthington (1958), M D Dassanayaka & F R Fosberg (1980), W D Clayton (1995), Mark Ashton, Savithri Gunathilake, Neela de Zoysa, Nimal Gunathilake & Siril Wijesundara (1997) and many more….