Alisma lanceolatum With. APNI* 
Description: Erect emergent aquatic perennial to c. 1 m high.
Petioles to c. 80 cm long, flattened on one side and with small wings at the base; lamina lanceolate, acute, tapering gradually into the petiole, to 20 cm long and 4 cm wide, with up to 7 prominent parallel veins connected by numerous transverse veins.
Inflorescence to 60 cm long and 40 cm wide. Flowers c. 10 mm diam. Sepals to 2 mm long. Petals c. 4 mm long, white or pink. Carpels c. 20, free; style curved in lower part.
Nutlets 2–2.5 mm long, falling singly.
Flowering: summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Spreading and becoming a serious weed of rice crops; south from Coleambally irrigation area. Native of Eur., Afr. & Asia.
NSW subdivisions: *SWP
Other Australian states: *Vic. *S.A.
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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