Hydrothrix

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Speciesbox | image = | image_caption = | genus = Heteranthera | authority = (Hook.f.) M.Pell.<ref name=Pellegrini2017/> | species = gardneri | synonyms = *''Hydrothrix gardneri'' Hook.f. *''Hydrothrix verticillaris'' Hook.f. *''Hookerina gardneri'' Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 2: 718. 1891 }}

'''''Hydrothrix''''' Hook.f.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/os-1/2/89.extract |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120717113202/http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/os-1/2/89.extract |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-07-17 |title=On Hydrothrix, a new genus of Pontederiaceae |work=oxfordjournals.org}}</ref> was previously a monotypic flowering plant genus of Pontederiaceae, but is currently included in a broader and monophyletic ''Heteranthera''.<ref name="Pellegrini2017" />

The highly modified '''''Heteranthera gardneri''''' is a submerged aquatic with a two-flowered pseudanthium found in eastern Brazil. It is used as an aquarium plant.

==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="Pellegrini2017">{{cite journal |last=Pellegrini |first=M. O. O. |year=2017 |title=Two new synonyms in ''Heteranthera'' (Pontederiaceae, Commelinales) |journal=Nordic Journal of Botany |volume=35 |pages=124–128 |doi=10.1111/njb.01152}}</ref> }}

==External links== *{{wikispecies-inline}} * [http://keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/aquariumplants2/Aquarium_&_Pond_Plants_of_the_World/key/Aquarium_&_Pond_Plants/Media/Html/Fact_sheets/hydrothrix.html ''Hydrothrix'' on keys.lucidcentral.org]

Category:Monotypic Commelinales genera Category:Pontederiaceae Category:Flora of Brazil