Ottelia alismoides in Genus Ottelia

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Internal ID	UUID6440268a6b35c023256134
Scientific name	Ottelia alismoides
Authority	(L.) Pers.
First published in	Syn. Pl. 1: 400 (1805)

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Common products:
• Fresh or dried leaf biomass as a minor horticultural food crop; typically used in regional cuisines after blanching or light cooking to reduce mucilaginous texture.
• Pot and aquarium ornamental for its submergedrosette habit; frequently grown for aesthetic display in public aquaria and hobbyist tanks.

Food and beverages (non-medicinal):
• Consumed as a vegetable in parts of China; leaves are rinsed and cooked, often incorporated into soups and stir-fries as a leafy vegetable.

Colorants and tanning:
• No documented use of O. alismoides for natural dyes or tannins in reliable sources.

Wood and fiber:
• No documented bast fiber, timber, or woody material uses.

Fragrance and cosmetics:
• No documented fragrance or cosmetic uses of extracts or essential oils.

Properties relevant to use:
• Mucilaginous polysaccharides in the leaves contribute to gummy texture in fresh preparations; parboiling or blanching reduces viscosity and improves palatability.
• Plants exhibit fast vegetative propagation via shoot fragmentation under shallow, nutrient-rich conditions, supporting regular harvesting without digging.

Standards and regulation:
• No recognized food or horticulture standards specific to O. alismoides in major national or international systems; marketed as an ornamental subject to general plant import/trade rules where applicable.

Sustainability and sourcing:
• Harvested from paddies and canals in localized regions; concerns include eutrophication and pesticide exposure in agricultural water bodies where it grows.
• Cultivated production preferred over wild harvest to reduce pressure on natural waterways; quality depends on clean, low-turbidity water to minimize sediment and contaminants in edible biomass.

Synonyms Top

Scientific name	Authority	First published in
Ottelia alismoides var. cordifolia	Kuntze	Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 645. 1891
Ottelia alismoides var. lanceolata	Kuntze	Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 644. 1891
Hydrocharis bodinieri	H.Lév. & Vaniot	Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 5: 10 (1908)
Hymenotheca latifolia	Salisb.	Trans. Hort. Soc. London 1: 268 (1812)
Ottelia alata	(Gagnep.) H.Li	Acta Phytotax. Sin. 19: 31 (1981)
Ottelia alismoides var. lacustris	(Komarov) Kitag.	Neolin. Fl. Manshur. : 63 (1979)
Ottelia alismoides var. oryzetorum	(Komarov) Kitag.	Neolin. Fl. Manshur. : 63 (1979)
Ottelia bodinieri	(H.Lév. & Vaniot) Dandy	J. Bot. 72: 138 (1934)
Ottelia condorensis	Gagnep.	Bull. Soc. Bot. France 54: 543 (1907)
Ottelia dioecia	S.Z.Yan	J. Sci. Med. Jinan Univ. 6: 162 (1982)
Ottelia ensiformis	Blanco	Fl. Filip. : 460 (1837)
Ottelia hoffmeisteri	Klotzsch	Bot. Ergebn. Reise Waldemar : 41 (1862)
Ottelia indica	Planch. ex Dalzell & A.Gibson	Bombay Fl. : 278 (1861)
Ottelia japonica	Miq.	Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugduno-Batavi 2: 271 (1866)
Ottelia javanica	(Blume) Voigt	Hort. Suburb. Calcutt. : 618 (1845)
Ottelia lactucifolia	Walp.	Ann. Bot. Syst. 3: 510 (1852)
Ottelia lanceolata	(Gagnep.) Dandy	J. Bot. 72: 138 (1934)
Ottelia philippinensis	Ostenf.	Philipp. J. Sci., C 9: 259 (1914)
Ottelia thorelii	(Gagnep.) Dandy	J. Bot. 72: 139 (1934)
Stratiotes alismoides	L.	Sp. Pl. : 535 (1753)
Stratiotes quinquealatus	Stokes	Bot. Mat. Med. 3: 53 (1812)
Boottia alata	Gagnep.	Bull. Soc. Bot. France 54: 539 (1907)
Boottia bodinieri	H.Lév. & Vaniot	Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 8: 141 (1910)
Boottia lanceolata	Gagnep.	Bull. Soc. Bot. France 54: 540 (1907)
Boottia thorelii	Gagnep.	Bull. Soc. Bot. France 54: 541 (1907)
Damasonium alismoides	(L.) R.Br.	Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland. 344. 1810 [27 Mar 1810] (as alismoidi)
Damasonium indicum	Willd.	Sp. Pl., ed. 4 [Willdenow] 2(1): 276. 1799 [Mar 1799]
Damasonium javanicum	Blume	Enum. Pl. Javae 1: 30. 1827 [Oct-Dec 1827]
Damasonium lactucifolium	Planch.	Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. sér. 3, 11: 81. 1849
Damasonium lancifolium	C.Presl	Reliq. Haenk. i. 89.
Damasonium timorense	Zipp. ex Span.	Linnaea 15(4): 477. 1841 [Aug 1841-Jan 1842] , as 'Timorensis'
Damasonium tranquebariense	Schult.f.	Syst. Veg., ed. 15 bis [Roemer & Schultes] 7(2): 1595. 1830 [Oct-Dec 1830]
Ottelia alismoides f. oryzetorum	Kom.	Izv. Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 10: 122 1910
Ottelia alismoides f. lacustris	Kom.	Izv. Imp. Bot. Sada Petra Velikago 10: 122 1910
Ottelia alismoides var. javanica	(Blume) Kuntze	Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 645 (1891)

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Language	Common/alternative name
English	duck-lettuce
English	ducklettuce
English	waterplantain ottelia
English	water plantain
Arabic	لقمة القاضي
Arabic	اذن الشيطان
Arabic	أوتليا مزمارية
Bengali	পানিকলা
cdo	liék-siĕk-chāu
Japanese	ミズオオバコ
Korean	물질경이
Malayalam	ഒട്ടെലിയ അലിസ്മോയിഡെസ്
Thai	สันตะวาใบพาย
Chinese	龙舌草
Chinese	水车前草
Chinese	水白菜
Chinese	水车前
Chinese	水車前草

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Distribution (via POWO/KEW) Top

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Africa click to expand
- East Tropical Africa
  - Tanzania
- Northeast Tropical Africa
  - Sudan
- Northern Africa
  - Egypt

Asia-temperate click to expand
- China
  - China North-central
  - China South-central
  - China Southeast
  - Hainan
  - Manchuria
- Eastern Asia
  - Japan
  - Korea
  - Nansei-shoto
  - Taiwan
- Russian Far East
  - Khabarovsk
  - Primorye
- Western Asia
  - Iraq

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  - Bangladesh
  - India
  - Nepal
  - Sri Lanka
- Indo-China
  - Cambodia
  - Myanmar
  - Thailand
  - Vietnam
- Malesia
  - Borneo
  - Jawa
  - Lesser Sunda Islands
  - Malaya
  - Maluku
  - Philippines
  - Sulawesi
  - Sumatera
- Papuasia
  - New Guinea
  - Solomon Islands

Australasia click to expand
- Australia
  - Northern Territory
  - Queensland

Europe click to expand
- Southeastern Europe
  - Italy

Northern America click to expand
- Southeastern U.S.A.
  - Louisiana
- Southwestern U.S.A.
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Database	ID/link to page
World Flora Online	wfo-0000769606
Florida Plant Atlas	4263
USDA Plants	OTAL
Tropicos	16100046
Flora of Italy	6689
KEW	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1080475-2
The Plant List	kew-308360
Open Tree Of Life	91957
Observations.org	120222
NCBI Taxonomy	55483
Nature Serve	2.152784
IUCN Red List	164482
IPNI	1080475-2
iNaturalist	69947
GBIF	5329515
Freebase	/m/0nbdv6y
EPPO	OTEAL
EOL	1088978
Elurikkus	517504
Calflora (Californian flora)	6006
USDA GRIN	402901
Wikipedia	Ottelia_alismoides

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Accession	Assembly
Accession	Name	Level	Submitter	Released	Coverage	Size
GCA_037367405.1	ASM3736740v1	Scaffold	South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences	2024-03-19	10	6.01 Gb

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Germination Requirement and Suitable Storage Method of Hydrocharis dubia Seeds

Zhao S, Jiang H, Liu Y, Xian L, Fu W, Yuan S, Yin L, Li W

Biology (Basel)

07-Apr-2024

PMCID:	PMC11048256
doi:	10.3390/biology13040246
PMID:	38666858

Origin and Early Evolution of Hydrocharitaceae and the Ancestral Role of Stratiotes

Ulrich S, Vieira M, Coiro M, Bouchal JM, Geier C, Jacobs BF, Currano ED, Lenz OK, Wilde V, Zetter R, Grímsson F

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31-Mar-2024

PMCID:	PMC11013807
doi:	10.3390/plants13071008
PMID:	38611537

The complete chloroplast genomes of three Alismataceae species, including the medicinally important Alisma orientale

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Mitochondrial DNA B Resour

28-Mar-2024

PMCID:	PMC10984228
doi:	10.1080/23802359.2024.2320419
PMID:	38562439

Attenuation of photosynthesis in nanosilver-treated Arabidopsis thaliana is inherently linked to the particulate nature of silver

Mays V, Smith N, Pham C, White M, Wu Q, Berry J, Linan A, Alexander Wait D, Kovacs L

Heliyon

07-Mar-2024

PMCID:	PMC10950886
doi:	10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e27583
PMID:	38509917

Negative Effects of Butachlor on the Growth and Physiology of Four Aquatic Plants

Huang Y, Zhao S, Xian L, Li W, Zhou C, Sun J

Plants (Basel)

19-Jan-2024

PMCID:	PMC10819925
doi:	10.3390/plants13020304
PMID:	38276761

Comparative Plastid Genome and Phylogenomic Analyses of Potamogeton Species

Choi K, Hwang Y, Hong JK, Kang JS

Genes (Basel)

07-Oct-2023

PMCID:	PMC10606940
doi:	10.3390/genes14101914
PMID:	37895263

The CAM lineages of planet Earth

Gilman IS, Smith JA, Holtum JA, Sage RF, Silvera K, Winter K, Edwards EJ

Ann Bot

12-Sep-2023

PMCID:	PMC10799995
doi:	10.1093/aob/mcad135
PMID:	37698538

Blue Light Enhances Cadmium Tolerance of the Aquatic Macrophyte Potamogeton crispus

Wang S, Wang L, Zhang M, Li W, Xie Z, Huang W

Plants (Basel)

17-Jul-2023

PMCID:	PMC10383238
doi:	10.3390/plants12142667
PMID:	37514281

Different photosynthetic inorganic carbon utilization strategies in the heteroblastic leaves of an aquatic plant Ottelia ovalifolia

Liao Z, Li P, Zhou J, Li W, Jiang HS

Front Plant Sci

24-Mar-2023

PMCID:	PMC10081514
doi:	10.3389/fpls.2023.1142848
PMID:	37035085

Growth of water hyacinth biomass and its impact on the floristic composition of aquatic plants in a wetland ecosystem of the Brahmaputra floodplain of Assam, India

Lahon D, Sahariah D, Debnath J, Nath N, Meraj G, Farooq M, Kanga S, Singh SK, Chand K

PeerJ

03-Feb-2023

PMCID:	PMC9901310
doi:	10.7717/peerj.14811
PMID:	36755867

The Dual Therapeutic Potential of Ottelione A on Carbon Tetrachloride-induced Hepatic Toxicity in Mice

Zahran RF, EL-sayed LM, Hoye TR, Ayyad SE

Appl Biochem Biotechnol

02-Feb-2023

PMCID:	PMC10511377
doi:	10.1007/s12010-023-04346-8
PMID:	36729297

Ecological and Geographical Structure of the Plant Cover of the East Asian Boreal–Nemoral Ecotone (the Lower Amur Region, Far East Russia)

Kryukova MV

Plants (Basel)

30-Jan-2023

PMCID:	PMC9919551
doi:	10.3390/plants12030615
PMID:	36771699

The differential ability of two species of seagrass to use carbon dioxide and bicarbonate and their modelled response to rising concentrations of inorganic carbon

Maberly SC, Stott AW, Gontero B

Front Plant Sci

29-Sep-2022

PMCID:	PMC9648567
doi:	10.3389/fpls.2022.936716
PMID:	36388529

Carbon and nitrogen metabolic regulation in freshwater plant Ottelia alismoides in response to carbon limitation: A metabolite perspective

Huang W, Han S, Wang L, Li W

Front Plant Sci

15-Sep-2022

PMCID:	PMC9522611
doi:	10.3389/fpls.2022.962622
PMID:	36186073

Plastome phylogenomics and historical biogeography of aquatic plant genus Hydrocharis (Hydrocharitaceae)

Li ZZ, Lehtonen S, Gichira AW, Martins K, Efremov A, Wang QF, Chen JM

BMC Plant Biol

08-Mar-2022

PMCID:	PMC8903008
doi:	10.1186/s12870-022-03483-2
PMID:	35260081

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Name	PubChem ID	Canonical SMILES	MW	Found in	Proof
> Lipids and lipid-like molecules / Prenol lipids / Monoterpenoids / Iridoids and derivatives
(1R,3R,3aR,7aR)-1-ethenyl-3-[(3-hydroxy-4-methoxyphenyl)methyl]-7-methylidene-2,3,3a,7a-tetrahydro-1H-inden-4-one	9818159	Click to see	310.40	unknown	https://doi.org/10.1021/JO971870A
(1S,3S,3aS,7aS)-1-ethenyl-3-[(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)methyl]-7-methylidene-2,3,3a,7a-tetrahydro-1H-inden-4-one	101260684	Click to see	310.40	unknown	https://doi.org/10.1021/JO971870A
1-ethenyl-3-[(3-hydroxy-4-methoxyphenyl)methyl]-7-methylidene-2,3,3a,7a-tetrahydro-1H-inden-4-one	9938981	Click to see COC1=C(C=C(C=C1)CC2CC(C3C2C(=O)C=CC3=C)C=C)O	310.40	unknown	https://doi.org/10.1021/JO971870A
3-epi-Ottelion A	11392750	Click to see COC1=C(C=C(C=C1)CC2CC(C3C2C(=O)C=CC3=C)C=C)O	310.40	unknown	https://doi.org/10.1021/JO971870A
ottelione A	10946837	Click to see COC1=C(C=C(C=C1)CC2CC(C3C2C(=O)C=CC3=C)C=C)O	310.40	unknown	https://doi.org/10.1021/JO971870A

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Ottelia alismoides

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