Pistia stratiotes L.

English: Water lettuce

Mandarin: 大漂 (da piao)

Portuguese: Erva-de-Santa-Luzia

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Arales (13)

        Family: Araceae (16)(family description)

          Genus: Pistia (1)

            Epithet: stratiotes L. (1)

stratiotes => a common soldier

Climate: tropical

Habitat: hydrophytic

Habit: herb

Check for Pistia stratiotes at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

• [105] International Aroid Society
• [336] Pistia stratiotes - Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER)
• [1347] Pistia stratiotes - Flora of China @ efloras.org

• [12] Dokosi, O.B. (1998): Herbs of Ghana. Ghana University Press, Accra, Ghana.