Stratiotes aloides L.

English: Water Soldiers

German: Krebsscheere

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Liliopsida (397)

      Order: Hydrocharitales (3)

        Family: Hydrocharitaceae (4)(family description)

          Genus: Stratiotes (1)

            Epithet: aloides L. (2)

aloides => resembling Aloe

Climate: temperate

Habit: herb

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• [1141] Stratiotes aloides - Plants For A Future
• [1340] Stratiotes aloides - Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé: Flora von Deutschland Österreich und der Schweiz