# Cryptocoryne beckettii

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Species of aquatic plant

Cryptocoryne beckettii Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Clade: Embryophytes Clade: Tracheophytes Clade: Spermatophytes Clade: Angiosperms Clade: Monocots Order: Alismatales Family: Araceae Genus: Cryptocoryne Species: C. beckettii Binomial name Cryptocoryne beckettii Thwaites ex Trimen. (1885)

***Cryptocoryne beckettii***, also known as **Beckett's water trumpet**, is a plant [species](/source/Species) belonging to the [Araceae](/source/Araceae) [genus](/source/Genus) *[Cryptocoryne](/source/Cryptocoryne)*.

## Distribution

Sri Lanka, found in freshwater springs and rivers.

(It is not clear which plants sold in the [aquarium](/source/Aquarium) trade under this name are the true [species](/source/Species). Probably due to aquarists C. beckettii is now found in Florida [*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] and probably other suitable spots in [North America](/source/North_America) [*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*].

## Description

*Cryptocoryne beckettii* is a perennial, rhizomatous, herb that can grow as an emergent or as a submerged aquatic. It has basal leaves with elongate, sheathing petioles up to 15 cm (6 in) long. The blades are glabrous, ovate to narrowly ovate, 3 to 9 cm (1.2 to 3.5 in) long and 1 to 3.5 cm (0.39 to 1.38 in) wide. The blade's upper surface is green to dark green or brown and marbled to red-brown, and the lower surface is generally red-tinged, to more or less brownish or green. The leaves have an acute to acuminate apex, entire or sometimes undulate leaf margins, and conspicuously red veins. Submerged plants usually have larger, thinner leaves. The rarely seen inflorescences are short-peduncled with a 4-to-12-centimetre-long (1.6 to 4.7 in) spathe. The greenish-brown limb is twisted, upright to somewhat recurved, and narrowly ovate in shape, generally 0.5 to 1.2 cm (0.20 to 0.47 in) wide and 1.5–3 cm (0.59–1.18 in) long. The spadix is typically 1.0 cm (0.39 in) long (Rosen, 2000).

- Rosen, D.J. 2000. *Cryptocoryne beckettii* (Araceae), a new aquatic plant in Texas. Sida 19(2): 399-401.

## Cultivation

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Good substrate and benefits from additional CO2. One of the best crypts for the [aquarium](/source/Aquarium). Slow growing and may take several weeks to settle in.

Probably the oldest cultivated crypt. It grows very easily in even hard water. The substrate should be a mixture of sand, clay and peat.

It prefers a quiet situation and not too intense a light. It normally spreads and multiplies by vegetative (stolon/rhizome) growth. It can suffer from [crypt melt](/source/Cryptocoryne#Crypt_melt) and seems to dislike being moved about.

## Forms

*petchii* is a smaller form with slightly fluted [leaves](/source/Leaves).

- [Tropica](http://www.tropica.dk/productcard_1.asp?id=108A)

## External links

- [Crypts pages illustrations *C. beckettii*](https://web.archive.org/web/20071015215323/http://www.nationaalherbarium.nl/Cryptocoryne/Gallery/bec/bec.html)

- [Illustrations](http://www.wschowa.com/abrimaal/araceum/cryptocoryne/beckettii.htm)

- [Nonindigenous Aquatic Species USA](https://web.archive.org/web/20120207204756/http://nas.er.usgs.gov/taxgroup/plants/docs/cryp_beckettii.htm)

Taxon identifiers Cryptocoryne beckettii Wikidata: Q4241185 Wikispecies: Cryptocoryne beckettii CoL: 6BM2N EoL: 1092472 EPPO: KNYBE GBIF: 2869244 GRIN: 403227 iNaturalist: 817585 IPNI: 86663-1 IRMNG: 11006943 ISC: 113644 ITIS: 811046 NAS: 1097 Observation.org: 280286 Open Tree of Life: 4001213 Plant List: kew-51963 PLANTS: CRBE10 POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:86663-1 Tropicos: 2102422 WFO: wfo-0000933174

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