A floating lawn in a varzea lake showing the yellow flowers of Utricularia
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A patch of Pistia stratiotes
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A photograph of a lawn of floating plants in an Amazonian floodplain lake. In this picture can be seen a number of characteristic floating plants including Pistia, Azolla and Limnobium |
Flowering water hyacinth, Eichhornia crassipes
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The giant Amazonian water lily Victoria amazonica. The leaves have been heavily eaten by insects. The photograph was taken in a small pond on the edge of a channel in the River Amazon floodplain
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The giant amazonian water lily, Victoria amazonica, in a floodplain pool showing a single flower about to open
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The leaves of giant Amazonian water lily Victoria amazonica
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The giant Amazonian water lily Victoria amazonica. The leaves have been heavily eaten by insects
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Paspalum repens growing along the edge of a varzea channel
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A floating fern, Ceratopteris, photographed in a white water floodplain lake
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