Limnocharis

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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|taxon = Limnocharis

|image=Limnocharis flava HabitusFlower BotGardBln0906.jpg

|image_caption=Limnocharis flava

|authority = Humb. & Bonpl.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/279575#page/137/mode/1up Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt & Aime Jacques Alexandre Bonpland. 1807. Plantae Aequinoctiales 1: 116]

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Limnocharis is a genus of plants in the family Alismataceae, native to Mexico, Central America, the West Indies and South America, but naturalized in China, India, and Southeast Asia as well. Two species are recognized as of May 2014:{{Cite web|url=http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=280174|title=World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|website=apps.kew.org|language=en-GB|access-date=2017-01-30}}

• Limnocharis flava (L.) BuchenauBuchenau, Franz Georg Philipp. 1869. Abhandlungen herausgegeben vom Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereine zu Bremen 2: 2,4. - most of generic range
• Limnocharis laforestii Duchass. ex Griseb{{Cite journal|last=Berthold|first=Seemann|last2=G.|first2=Seemann, Wilhelm E.|last3=Naturforscher.|first3=Kaiserlich Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Deutsche Akademie der|date=1858-01-01|title=Bonplandia.|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4867872#page/23/mode/1up|language=en|volume=j.6 (1858)|publisher=C. Rmpler.}} - from Mexico to Argentina