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Internal ID UUID643ff8b8d9685772450994
Scientific name Eleocharis dulcis
Authority Hensch.
First published in Vita C.E. Rumphii Plinii Indici 1833

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Carex tuberosa Blanco Fl. Filip. : 35 (1837)
Eleocharis austrocaledonica Vieill. Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. , sér. 4, 16: 38 (1862)
Eleocharis dulcis var. tuberosa (Schult.) T.Koyama J. Fac. Sci. Univ. Tokyo, Sect. 3, Bot. 8: 97 1961
Eleocharis equisetina J.Presl & C.Presl Reliq. Haenk. 1: 195 (1828)
Eleocharis esculenta Vieill. Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. sér. 4, 16: 37. 1862 (1862)
Eleocharis indica Druce Bot. Soc. Exch. Club Brit. Isles 1916: 621 (1917)
Eleocharis plantaginea (Retz.) Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg., ed. 15 bis 2: 150 (1817)
Eleocharis plantagineiformis Tang & F.T.Wang Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 11: 225 (1961)
Eleocharis plantaginoidea W.Wight Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. ix. 267. 1905 [8 Apr 1905]
Eleocharis plantaginoides Domin Biblioth. Bot. 20(85): 445 (1915)
Eleocharis tuberosa Schult. Mant. 2: 86 (1824)
Eleocharis tumida Schult. Mant. 2: 86 (1824)
Limnochloa plantaginea (Retz.) Nees Contributions to the Botany of India 1834
Limnochloa tumida Nees Contr. Bot. India : 114 (1834)
Scirpus dubius Roxb. Hort. Bengal. [81]; Fl. Ind. i. 215.
Scirpus plantagineus Retz. Observ. Bot. 5: 14 (1788)
Scirpus plantaginoides Rottb. Descr. Icon. Rar. Pl. : 45 (1773)
Scirpus spiralis Willd. ex Kunth Enum. Pl. 2: 153 (1837)
Scirpus tuberosus Roxb. Pl. Coromandel 3: 25 (1815)
Scirpus tumidus Roxb. Hort. Bengal. 6; Fl. Ind. i. 212.
Eleocharis plantaginea var. stolonifera Boeckeler Beitr. Cyper. 2: 14 (1890)
Andropogon dulcis Burm.f. Fl. Indica : 219 (1768)

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Language Common/alternative name
English chinese water chestnut
Arabic إيليوكاريس حلو
Assamese চেঁচোৰ
Bulgarian китайски воден кестен
Bengali এলিওচারিস ডুলসিস
cdo 莓薺
Czech bahnička jedlá
Danish kinesisk vandkastanje
Danish vandkastanje
German chinesische wasserkastanie
German wasserkastanie
Greek ελαιόχαρις η ηδύκαρπος
Greek Κινέζικο νεροκάστανο
Esperanto akvokaŝtano
Finnish kastanjaluikka
Finnish vesikastanja
French châtaigne d'eau chinoise
Irish castán uisce
Gujarati શિંગોડા
Hindi चीनी सिंघाड़ा
Hungarian vízigesztenye
Indonesian purun tikus
Japanese シログワイ
Japanese オオクログワイ
Kannada ವಾಟರ್ ಚೆಸ್ನಟ್
Korean 남방개
ks غأرؠ
mad lo'-colo'an
Macedonian воден костен
Marathi शिंगाडा
Malay sengkuang cina
Norwegian Bokmål vannkastanje
Dutch chinese waterkastanje
pam apulid
Polish chiński kasztan wodny
Polish ponikło słodkie
Punjab سنگھاڑا
Russian Болотница сладкая
Russian Китайский водяной орех
sd سنگھارا
Swedish vattenkastanj
Swedish vattenkastanjer
Swedish kinesisk vattenkastanj
Thai แห้วทรงกระเทียม
Tonga lepironia mucronata
Tonga kuta
Urdu سنگھاڑا
Vietnamese mã thầy
Vietnamese năng ngọt
Vietnamese cỏ năng ống
Vietnamese củ năn bông đơn
Vietnamese củ năng bông đơn
Vietnamese năn
Vietnamese năn bộp
Vietnamese năn lùn
Vietnamese năn ngọt
Chinese 荸荠
Chinese 荸薺
Chinese 马蹄(粤俗)
Chinese 通天草(浙江)
Chinese 荸荠椇
Chinese 红慈姑(民间常用草药汇编)
Chinese 地栗
Chinese 通天草

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  • Africa
    • East Tropical Africa
      • Kenya
      • Tanzania
      • Uganda
    • Northeast Tropical Africa
      • Chad
    • South Tropical Africa
      • Angola
      • Mozambique
      • Zambia
      • Zimbabwe
    • Southern Africa
      • Botswana
      • Namibia
    • West Tropical Africa
      • Burkina
      • Gambia
      • Ghana
      • Guinea
      • Guinea-Bissau
      • Ivory Coast
      • Liberia
      • Mali
      • Nigeria
      • Senegal
      • Sierra Leone
      • Togo
    • West-central Tropical Africa
      • Congo
      • Gabon
      • Zaïre
    • Western Indian Ocean
      • Madagascar
      • Mauritius
      • Réunion
      • Seychelles
  • Asia-temperate
    • China
      • China South-central
      • China Southeast
      • Hainan
    • Eastern Asia
      • Japan
      • Korea
      • Nansei-shoto
      • Taiwan
  • Asia-tropical
    • Indian Subcontinent
      • Bangladesh
      • India
      • Pakistan
      • Sri Lanka
    • Indo-China
      • Andaman Islands
      • Cambodia
      • Myanmar
      • Thailand
      • Vietnam
    • Malesia
      • Jawa
      • Lesser Sunda Islands
      • Malaya
      • Maluku
      • Philippines
      • Sulawesi
      • Sumatera
    • Papuasia
      • New Guinea
  • Australasia
    • Australia
      • New South Wales
      • Northern Territory
      • Queensland
      • Western Australia
  • Pacific
    • Northwestern Pacific
      • Caroline Islands
      • Marianas
    • Southwestern Pacific
      • Fiji
      • New Caledonia
      • Samoa
      • Tonga
      • Wallis-Futuna Islands

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000403815
UNII AX0C5Z8STG
USDA Plants ELDU3
Tropicos 9902615
INPN 671079
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:306797-1
The Plant List kew-242450
Missouri Botanical Garden 279795
PFAF Eleocharis dulcis
Open Tree Of Life 388351
Observations.org 318390
NCBI Taxonomy 110284
IUCN Red List 169077
IPNI 306797-1
iNaturalist 122977
GBIF 2717712
Freebase /m/05p7__
EPPO ELODU
EOL 1120264
Elurikkus 289473
US Library of Congress sh85042520
USDA GRIN 14976
Wikipedia Eleocharis_dulcis

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Accession Assembly
Name Level Submitter Released Coverage Size
GCA_040741935.1 ASM4074193v1 Complete Genome Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences 2024-07-16 60.0x 470.42 Mb

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Title Authors Publication Released IDs
The complete chloroplast genome and phylogenetic analysis of Cyperus brevifolius (Rottb.) Hassk. 1844 (Cyperaceae) Fan X, Yuan K, Zheng Y Mitochondrial DNA B Resour 08-May-2024
PMCID:PMC11086023
doi:10.1080/23802359.2024.2349769
PMID:38737394
Unprecedented variation pattern of plastid genomes and the potential role in adaptive evolution in Poales Wu H, Li DZ, Ma PF BMC Biol 29-Apr-2024
PMCID:PMC11057118
doi:10.1186/s12915-024-01890-5
PMID:38679718
Flavonoids: A treasure house of prospective pharmacological potentials Hasnat H, Shompa SA, Islam MM, Alam S, Richi FT, Emon NU, Ashrafi S, Ahmed NU, Chowdhury MN, Fatema N, Hossain MS, Ghosh A, Ahmed F Heliyon 09-Mar-2024
PMCID:PMC10944245
doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e27533
PMID:38496846
Carbon quantum dots in bioimaging and biomedicines Das S, Mondal S, Ghosh D Front Bioeng Biotechnol 22-Jan-2024
PMCID:PMC10841552
doi:10.3389/fbioe.2023.1333752
PMID:38318419
The complete chloroplast genome and phylogenetic analysis of Cyperus malaccensis Lam (Cyperaceae) Pan L, Chen K, Liao X Mitochondrial DNA B Resour 21-Jan-2024
PMCID:PMC10810665
doi:10.1080/23802359.2024.2305413
PMID:38274852
Study on medicinal food plants in the Gaoligongshan Biosphere Reserve, the richest biocultural diversity center in China Cheng Z, Lin S, Wu Z, Lin C, Zhang Q, Xu C, Li J, Long C J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 15-Jan-2024
PMCID:PMC10790445
doi:10.1186/s13002-023-00638-9
PMID:38225656
Applications of Plant Bioactive Compounds as Replacers of Synthetic Additives in the Food Industry Nieto G, Martínez-Zamora L, Peñalver R, Marín-Iniesta F, Taboada-Rodríguez A, López-Gómez A, Martínez-Hernández GB Foods 21-Dec-2023
PMCID:PMC10778451
doi:10.3390/foods13010047
PMID:38201075
East meets west: using ethnobotany in ethnic urban markets of Barcelona metropolitan area (Catalonia) as a tool for biocultural exchange D’Ambrosio U, Pozo C, Vallès J, Gras A J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 17-Dec-2023
PMCID:PMC10726630
doi:10.1186/s13002-023-00636-x
PMID:38105250
An extracellular polysaccharide is involved in the aluminum tolerance of Pullulanibacillus sp. CA42, a newly isolated strain from the Chinese water chestnut growing in an actual acid sulfate soil area in Vietnam Aizawa T, Sato J, Saito S, Yasuda T, Maruyama Y, Urai M Front Microbiol 28-Aug-2023
PMCID:PMC10493610
doi:10.3389/fmicb.2023.1241244
PMID:37700869
Yao-Shan of traditional Chinese medicine: an old story for metabolic health Yang S, Yang H, Zhang Y Front Pharmacol 16-Aug-2023
PMCID:PMC10468577
doi:10.3389/fphar.2023.1194026
PMID:37663255
Tectorigenin: A Review of Its Sources, Pharmacology, Toxicity, and Pharmacokinetics Rong J, Fu F, Han C, Wu Y, Xia Q, Du D Molecules 05-Aug-2023
PMCID:PMC10421414
doi:10.3390/molecules28155904
PMID:37570873
Red emitting carbon dots: surface modifications and bioapplications Benner D, Yadav P, Bhatia D Nanoscale Adv 03-Aug-2023
PMCID:PMC10448348
doi:10.1039/d3na00469d
PMID:37638168
Diversity of plant DNA in stool is linked to dietary quality, age, and household income Petrone BL, Aqeel A, Jiang S, Durand HK, Dallow EP, McCann JR, Dressman HK, Hu Z, Tenekjian CB, Yancy WS Jr, Lin PH, Scialla JJ, Seed PC, Rawls JF, Armstrong SC, Stevens J, David LA Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 27-Jun-2023
PMCID:PMC10319039
doi:10.1073/pnas.2304441120
PMID:37368926
Identification of two terpenoids that accumulate in Chinese water chestnut in response to fresh‐cut processing Nie H, Luo Y, Huang S, Mo Y, Huang Z, Liao Y, Jiang L, Cai W, Song M Food Sci Nutr 12-Jun-2023
PMCID:PMC10494652
doi:10.1002/fsn3.3475
PMID:37701225
Complementary ecosystem services from multiple land uses highlight the importance of tropical mosaic landscapes Raveloaritiana E, Wurz A, Osen K, Soazafy MR, Grass I, Martin DA, Bemamy C, Ranarijaona HL, Borgerson C, Kreft H, Hölscher D, Rakouth B, Tscharntke T Ambio 07-Jun-2023
PMCID:PMC10460756
doi:10.1007/s13280-023-01888-3
PMID:37286920

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Name PubChem ID Canonical SMILES MW Found in Proof
> Lipids and lipid-like molecules / Fatty Acyls / Fatty acids and conjugates / Very long-chain fatty acids
Hexacosanoic acid 10469 Click to see CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC(=O)O 396.70 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/JF00043A032
> Lipids and lipid-like molecules / Prenol lipids / Triterpenoids
Betulin 72326 Click to see CC(=C)C1CCC2(C1C3CCC4C5(CCC(C(C5CCC4(C3(CC2)C)C)(C)C)O)C)CO 442.70 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/JF00043A032
> Lipids and lipid-like molecules / Steroids and steroid derivatives / Stigmastanes and derivatives
17-(5-ethyl-6-methylheptan-2-yl)-10,13-dimethyl-2,3,4,7,8,9,11,12,14,15,16,17-dodecahydro-1H-cyclopenta[a]phenanthren-3-ol 86821 Click to see CCC(CCC(C)C1CCC2C1(CCC3C2CC=C4C3(CCC(C4)O)C)C)C(C)C 414.70 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/JF00043A032
24-Ethylcholest-5-en-3beta-ol 22012 Click to see CCC(CCC(C)C1CCC2C1(CCC3C2CC=C4C3(CCC(C4)O)C)C)C(C)C 414.70 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/JF00043A032
Stigmasterol 5280794 Click to see CCC(C=CC(C)C1CCC2C1(CCC3C2CC=C4C3(CCC(C4)O)C)C)C(C)C 412.70 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/JF00043A032
> Phenylpropanoids and polyketides / Flavonoids / O-methylated flavonoids / 3-O-methylated flavonoids
Tricin 5281702 Click to see COC1=CC(=CC(=C1O)OC)C2=CC(=O)C3=C(C=C(C=C3O2)O)O 330.29 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/JF00043A032

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