{{Short description|Genus of aquatic plants}} {{automatic taxobox |image = Limnophyton obtusifolium 8305.jpg |image_caption = ''Limnophyton obtusifolium'' |taxon = Limnophyton |authority = Miq. |type_species=''Limnophyton obtusifolium'' |type_species_authority = (L.) Miq. |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = See text }}
'''''Limnophyton''''' is a genus in the family Alismataceae.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Wilhelm|first=Miquel, Friedrich Anton|date=1855-01-01|title=Flora van Nederlandsch Indië /|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/1863#page/251/mode/1up|volume=3|publisher=C. G. van der Post; [etc.]}}</ref> It includes five species from the Old World tropics. Three species are recognized as of May 2014:<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=280156|title=World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|website=apps.kew.org|access-date=2016-08-11}}</ref>
==Species== * ''Limnophyton angolense'' <small>Buchenau in H.G.A.Engler</small> - tropical Africa from Liberia to Sudan to Botswana * ''Limnophyton fluitans'' <small>Graebn.</small> - Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea * ''Limnophyton obtusifolium'' <small>(L.) Miq.</small> - Africa from Liberia to South Africa; Madagascar; India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar (Burma), Vietnam, Indonesia
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Category:Alismataceae Category:Alismataceae genera Category:Aquatic plants Category:Taxa named by Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel
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