{{Short description|Genus of aquatic plants}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Blyxa echinosperma et al.JPG | image_caption = ''Blyxa echinosperma'' | taxon = Blyxa | authority = Thouars ex Rich | synonyms_ref = <ref name=s/> | synonyms = *''Diplosiphon'' <small>Decne.</small> *''Hydrotrophus'' <small>C.B.Clarke</small> *''Enhydrias'' <small>Ridl.</small> *''Blyxopsis'' <small>Kuntze</small> }}
'''''Blyxa''''' is a genus of an aquatic plant of the family Hydrocharitaceae described as a genus in 1806.<ref>Thouars, Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-. 1806. Genera Nova Madagascariensia 4</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tropicos.org/Name/50113177|title=Tropicos {{!}} Name - !Blyxa Noronha ex Thouars|website=www.tropicos.org|access-date=2017-01-31}}</ref>
It is native to tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, Asia, Madagascar, and Australia.<ref name="s">{{Cite web|url=http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=309303|title=World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|website=apps.kew.org|language=en-GB|access-date=2017-01-31}}</ref><ref name="Cook and Luond 1983">Cook, C.D.K. and R. Luond (1983) [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0304377083900980 A revision of the genus ''Blyxa'' (Hydrocharitaceae).] ''Aquatic Botany'' '''15:''' 1–52</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=104135|title=Blyxa in Flora of China @ efloras.org|website=www.efloras.org|access-date=2017-01-31}}</ref>
;Species<ref name=s/> # ''Blyxa aubertii'' A. Rich. - China, Japan, Korea, Indian Subcontinent, SE Asia, New Guinea, N Australia, Caroline Islands, Madagascar, Tanzania, Mozambique # ''Blyxa echinosperma'' (C.B.Clarke) Hook.f. - China, Japan, Korea, Indian Subcontinent, SE Asia, New Guinea, N Australia # ''Blyxa hexandra'' <small>C.D.K.Cook & Luond</small> - central Africa # ''Blyxa japonica'' <small>(Miq.) Maxim. ex Asch. & Gürke</small> - China, Japan, Korea, Indian Subcontinent, SE Asia, New Guinea # ''Blyxa javanica'' <small>Hassk.</small> - Java # ''Blyxa leiosperma'' <small>Koidz.</small> - Japan, Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang # ''Blyxa novoguineensis'' <small>Hartog</small> - Papua New Guinea # ''Blyxa octandra'' <small>(Roxb.) Planch. ex Thwaites</small> - China, Indian Subcontinent, Myanmar, Thailand, New Guinea # ''Blyxa quadricostata'' <small>Hartog</small> - Myanmar, Thailand # ''Blyxa radicans'' <small>Ridl.</small> - central Africa # ''Blyxa senegalensis'' <small>Dandy</small> - West Africa # ''Blyxa vietii'' <small>C.D.K.Cook & Luond</small> - Vietnam
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Category:Hydrocharitaceae Category:Hydrocharitaceae genera Category:Aquatic plants
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