Taxon: Echinodorus berteroi (Spreng.) Fassett

Summary

Genus:

Echinodorus

Family:

Alismataceae

Nomen number:

406385

Place of publication:

Rhodora 57:139. 1955

Verified:

04/28/2000 ARS Systematic Botanists.

Accessions:

0 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System.

Other conspecific taxa

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Basionym
Alisma berteroi Spreng.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Alisma rostratum Nutt.
Echinodorus rostratus (Nutt.) Engelm. ex A. Gray

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Conservation Status

Reference(s)

Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45
Cronquist, A. et al. 1972-. Intermountain flora. Note: = Echinodorus rostratus
Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage
FNA Editorial Committee. 2000. Flora of North America. 22:9.
Harling, G. & B. Sparre, eds. 1973-. Flora of Ecuador.
Haynes, R. R. & L. B. Holm-Nielsen. 1994. The Alismataceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 64:39.
Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
Jones, G. N. & G. D. Fuller. 1955. Vascular plants of Illinois. Note: = Echinodorus rostratus
Lehtonen, S. 2008. An integrative approach to species delimitation in Echinodorus (Alismataceae) and the description of two new species. Kew Bull. 63:530.
McVaugh, R. 1983-. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
International Seed Testing Association wild species list

Common names

Language	Name	Alternate name	note	seq	Citation
Swedish	cellofansvalting			2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)

Distribution

order_code	Status	Continent	Subcontinent	Country	State	Note	Reference
1	Native	Northern America	North-Central U.S.A.	United States	Illinois		FNA Editorial Committee. 2000. Flora of North America. 22:9.
1	Native	Northern America	North-Central U.S.A.	United States	Iowa		FNA Editorial Committee. 2000. Flora of North America. 22:9.
1	Native	Northern America	North-Central U.S.A.	United States	Kansas		FNA Editorial Committee. 2000. Flora of North America. 22:9.
1	Native	Northern America	North-Central U.S.A.	United States	Missouri		FNA Editorial Committee. 2000. Flora of North America. 22:9.
1	Native	Northern America	North-Central U.S.A.	United States	Nebraska		FNA Editorial Committee. 2000. Flora of North America. 22:9.
1	Native	Northern America	North-Central U.S.A.	United States	Oklahoma		FNA Editorial Committee. 2000. Flora of North America. 22:9.
1	Native	Northern America	North-Central U.S.A.	United States	South Dakota		FNA Editorial Committee. 2000. Flora of North America. 22:9.
1	Native	Northern America	North-Central U.S.A.	United States	Wisconsin		FNA Editorial Committee. 2000. Flora of North America. 22:9.
1	Native	Northern America	Northeastern U.S.A.	United States	Ohio		FNA Editorial Committee. 2000. Flora of North America. 22:9.
1	Native	Northern America	Northern Mexico	Mexico	Baja California (Norte)		Haynes, R. R. & L. B. Holm-Nielsen. 1994. The Alismataceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 64:39.
1	Native	Northern America	Northern Mexico	Mexico	Baja California Sur		Haynes, R. R. & L. B. Holm-Nielsen. 1994. The Alismataceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 64:39.
1	Native	Northern America	Northern Mexico	Mexico	Chihuahua		Haynes, R. R. & L. B. Holm-Nielsen. 1994. The Alismataceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 64:39.
1	Native	Northern America	Northern Mexico	Mexico	Coahuila de Zaragoza		Haynes, R. R. & L. B. Holm-Nielsen. 1994. The Alismataceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 64:39.
1	Native	Northern America	Northern Mexico	Mexico	Nuevo León		Haynes, R. R. & L. B. Holm-Nielsen. 1994. The Alismataceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 64:39.
1	Native	Northern America	Northern Mexico	Mexico	San Luis Potosí		Haynes, R. R. & L. B. Holm-Nielsen. 1994. The Alismataceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 64:39.
1	Native	Northern America	Northern Mexico	Mexico	Sonora		Haynes, R. R. & L. B. Holm-Nielsen. 1994. The Alismataceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 64:39.
1	Native	Northern America	Northern Mexico	Mexico	Tamaulipas		Haynes, R. R. & L. B. Holm-Nielsen. 1994. The Alismataceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 64:39.
1	Native	Northern America	South-Central U.S.A.	United States	Texas		FNA Editorial Committee. 2000. Flora of North America. 22:9.
1	Native	Northern America	Southeastern U.S.A.	United States	Arkansas		FNA Editorial Committee. 2000. Flora of North America. 22:9.
1	Native	Northern America	Southeastern U.S.A.	United States	Florida		FNA Editorial Committee. 2000. Flora of North America. 22:9.
1	Native	Northern America	Southeastern U.S.A.	United States	Louisiana		FNA Editorial Committee. 2000. Flora of North America. 22:9.
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Colima		Haynes, R. R. & L. B. Holm-Nielsen. 1994. The Alismataceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 64:39.
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Guerrero		Haynes, R. R. & L. B. Holm-Nielsen. 1994. The Alismataceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 64:39.
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Michoacán de Ocampo		Haynes, R. R. & L. B. Holm-Nielsen. 1994. The Alismataceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 64:39.
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave		Haynes, R. R. & L. B. Holm-Nielsen. 1994. The Alismataceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 64:39.
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Yucatán		Haynes, R. R. & L. B. Holm-Nielsen. 1994. The Alismataceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 64:39.
1	Native	Northern America	Southwestern U.S.A.	United States	California		FNA Editorial Committee. 2000. Flora of North America. 22:9.
1	Native	Northern America	Southwestern U.S.A.	United States	Nevada		FNA Editorial Committee. 2000. Flora of North America. 22:9.
1	Native	Northern America	Southwestern U.S.A.	United States	Utah		FNA Editorial Committee. 2000. Flora of North America. 22:9.
1	Native	Southern America	Caribbean	Antigua and Barbuda			Haynes, R. R. & L. B. Holm-Nielsen. 1994. The Alismataceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 64:39.
1	Native	Southern America	Caribbean	Bahamas			Haynes, R. R. & L. B. Holm-Nielsen. 1994. The Alismataceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 64:39.
1	Native	Southern America	Caribbean	Barbados			Haynes, R. R. & L. B. Holm-Nielsen. 1994. The Alismataceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 64:39.
1	Native	Southern America	Caribbean	Cuba			Haynes, R. R. & L. B. Holm-Nielsen. 1994. The Alismataceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 64:39.
1	Native	Southern America	Caribbean	Dominican Republic			Haynes, R. R. & L. B. Holm-Nielsen. 1994. The Alismataceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 64:39.
1	Native	Southern America	Caribbean	Guadeloupe			Lehtonen, S. 2008. An integrative approach to species delimitation in Echinodorus (Alismataceae) and the description of two new species. Kew Bull. 63:530.
1	Native	Southern America	Caribbean	Haiti			Haynes, R. R. & L. B. Holm-Nielsen. 1994. The Alismataceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 64:39.
1	Native	Southern America	Caribbean	Jamaica			Haynes, R. R. & L. B. Holm-Nielsen. 1994. The Alismataceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 64:39.
1	Native	Southern America	Caribbean	Netherlands Antilles	Bonaire		Haynes, R. R. & L. B. Holm-Nielsen. 1994. The Alismataceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 64:39.
1	Native	Southern America	Caribbean	United States	Puerto Rico		Haynes, R. R. & L. B. Holm-Nielsen. 1994. The Alismataceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 64:39.
1	Native	Southern America	Caribbean	United States	Virgin Islands, U.S.		Haynes, R. R. & L. B. Holm-Nielsen. 1994. The Alismataceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 64:39.
1	Native	Southern America	Northern South America	Guyana			Haynes, R. R. & L. B. Holm-Nielsen. 1994. The Alismataceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 64:39.
1	Native	Southern America	Northern South America	Venezuela			Lehtonen, S. 2008. An integrative approach to species delimitation in Echinodorus (Alismataceae) and the description of two new species. Kew Bull. 63:530.
1	Native	Southern America	Southern South America	Argentina	Neuquén		Lehtonen, S. 2008. An integrative approach to species delimitation in Echinodorus (Alismataceae) and the description of two new species. Kew Bull. 63:530.
1	Native	Southern America	Southern South America	Argentina	Río Negro		Haynes, R. R. & L. B. Holm-Nielsen. 1994. The Alismataceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 64:39.
1	Native	Southern America	Southern South America	Paraguay			Lehtonen, S. 2008. An integrative approach to species delimitation in Echinodorus (Alismataceae) and the description of two new species. Kew Bull. 63:530.
1	Native	Southern America	Western South America	Ecuador	Azuay		Haynes, R. R. & L. B. Holm-Nielsen. 1994. The Alismataceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 64:39.
1	Native	Southern America	Western South America	Peru		n.w.	Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45
2	Cultivated					also cult.

Native
Northern America

NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Ohio]
NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin]
SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana]
SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas]
SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [California, Nevada, Utah]
NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Baja California (Norte), Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, Tamaulipas]
SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Colima, Guerrero, Michoacán de Ocampo, Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, Yucatán]

Southern America

CARIBBEAN: Netherlands Antilles [Bonaire], Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, United States [Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, U.S.]
NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Guyana, Venezuela
WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Ecuador [Azuay], Peru (n.w.)
SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina [Neuquén, Río Negro], Paraguay

Cultivated (also cult.)

Reference(s)

Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45
FNA Editorial Committee. 2000. Flora of North America. 22:9.
Haynes, R. R. & L. B. Holm-Nielsen. 1994. The Alismataceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 64:39.
Lehtonen, S. 2008. An integrative approach to species delimitation in Echinodorus (Alismataceae) and the description of two new species. Kew Bull. 63:530.

Economic Uses

Usage	Type	Note	Reference
Environmental	ornamental		Haynes, R. R. & L. B. Holm-Nielsen. 1994. The Alismataceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 64:39.
Environmental	ornamental	aquarium plant	Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2026. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=406385. Accessed 24 October 2026.