Echinodorus berteroi

Cellophane sword
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Alismataceae
Genus: Echinodorus
Species:
E. berteroi
Binomial name
Echinodorus berteroi
(Spreng.) Fassett in Rhodora, 57:1139, 1955
Synonyms
  • Alisma berteroi Spreng.
  • Alisma berteroanum Balb. ex Schult. & Schult.f. in J.J.Roemer & J.A.Schultes
  • Alisma sprengelii Rich. ex Kunth
  • Echinodorus cordifolius var. berteroanus (Balb. ex Schult. & Schult.f.) Griseb.
  • Alisma rostratum Nutt.
  • Alisma macrophyllum var. minus Seub. in C.F.P.von Martius
  • Echinodorus rostratus (Nutt.) Engelm.
  • Echinodorus rostratus var. lanceolatus Engelm. ex S.Watson & Coult. in A.Gray
  • Echinodorus patagonicus Speg.
  • Sagittaria rostrata (Nutt.) Kuntze
  • Echinodorus cordifolius var. lanceolatus (Engelm. ex S.Watson & Coult.) Mack. & Bush
  • Echinodorus cordifolius f. lanceolatus (Engelm. ex S.Watson & Coult.) Fernald
  • Echinodorus rostratus f. lanceolatus (Engelm. ex S.Watson & Coult.) Fernald
  • Echinodorus berteroi var. lanceolatus (Engelm. ex S.Watson & Coult.) Fernald
  • Echinodorus berteroi var. patagonicus (Speg.) Rataj
  • Echinodorus berteroi subsp. patagonicus (Speg.) Rataj
  • Echinodorus longilineatus Rataj

Echinodorus berteroi (upright burhead or cellophane sword) is an aquatic plant species in the Alismataceae It is native to the southern and central parts of the United States, as well as Central America, the West Indies, and South America as far south as Argentina.