{"id":1263961,"date":"2016-11-25T09:52:59","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T09:52:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-24T18:23:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T12:53:32","slug":"hippuris-vulgaris","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/hippuris-vulgaris\/","title":{"rendered":"Hippuris vulgaris"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hippuris vulgaris <\/i>L., Sp. Pl. 4 1753<\/i>. (syn: Caullinia hippuroides<\/i> Raf.; Hippuris eschscholtzii<\/i> Cham. ex Ledeb.; Hippuris fluviatilis<\/i> Hoffm.; Hippuris generalis<\/i> E. H. L. Krause; Hippuris maritima<\/i> Hellen.; Hippuris montana<\/i> Ledeb. ex Rchb.; Hippuris palustris<\/i> Gorter\u00a0; Hippuris polyphylla<\/i> Raf.; Hippuris spiralis<\/i> Dan Yu; Hippuris tetraphylla<\/i> f. lacunarum<\/i> Dutilly & Lepage\u00a0; Hippuris verticillata<\/i> Gilib.; Hippuris vulgaris<\/i> f. lacunarum<\/i> (Dutilly & Lepage) Lepage\u00a0; Hippuris vulgaris<\/i> var. ramificans<\/i> D.Yu\u00a0; Limnopeuce vulgaris<\/i> “Vaillant” ex Greene);\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n
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<\/b>Hippuris vulgaris<\/i> (from Greek: \u1f35\u03c0\u03c0\u03bf\u03c2<\/b> \u2014 horse<\/i> and \u03bf\u1f50\u03c1\u03ac \u2014 tail<\/i>), known as mare’s-tail<\/b>[1]<\/font><\/a><\/sup> or common mare’s tail<\/b>, is a common <\/font>aquatic<\/font><\/a> plant<\/font> of <\/font>Eurasia<\/font><\/a> and <\/font>North America<\/font><\/a> ranging from <\/font>Greenland<\/font><\/a> to the <\/font>Tibetan Plateau<\/font><\/a> to <\/font>Arizona<\/font><\/a>. <\/font>It prefers non-acidic waters.<\/font> The species is also sometimes called horsetail<\/b>, a name which is better reserved to the horsetails<\/font><\/a> of genus Equisetum<\/font><\/a><\/i>. These are unrelated to H. vulgaris<\/i>, although there is some resemblance in appearance.<\/div>\n

The common mare’s tail is a creeping, <\/font>perennial<\/font><\/a> <\/font>herb<\/font><\/a>, found in shallow waters and <\/font>mud flats<\/font><\/a>.<\/font> It roots underwater, but most of its <\/font>leaves<\/font><\/a> are above the water surface. The leaves occur in <\/font>whorls<\/font><\/a> of 6-12; those above water are 0.5 to 2.5\u00a0cm long and up to 3\u00a0mm wide, whereas those under water are thinner and limper, and longer than those above water, especially in deeper <\/font>streams<\/font><\/a>. The stems are solid and unbranched but often curve, and can be up to 60\u00a0cm long. In shallow water they project 20\u201330\u00a0cm out of the water. It grows from stout <\/font>rhizomes<\/font><\/a>.<\/font> The <\/font>flowers<\/font><\/a> are inconspicuous, and not all plants produce them. <\/font><\/div>\n
Studies of H. vulgaris<\/i> in the Tibetan Plateau have shown that it is a prolific <\/font>methane<\/font><\/a> emitter.[2]<\/font><\/a><\/sup> H. vulgaris’s<\/i> roots extend into the anoxic zone of wetland soils and create a conduit for methane produced in the anoxic zone to travel to the atmosphere.<\/font><\/div>\n
In <\/font>herbal medicine<\/font><\/a>, mare’s tail has a number of uses, chiefly to do with healing wounds, e.g. stopping internal and external bleeding, curing <\/font>stomach ulcers<\/font><\/a>, and soothing inflammation of the skin. It can also be a troublesome <\/font>weed<\/font><\/a>, obstructing the flow of water in rivers and ditches.<\/font><\/div>\n
(from Wikipedia<\/font><\/a>\u00a0on 25.11.16)<\/div>\n
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Fwd: Hippuris vulgaris<\/a> :\u00a01 post by 1 author. Attachments<\/span> (11)<\/font><\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n
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I recently identified a set of photos of plants taken in Ladakh<\/font> by Marie Meister.\u00a0 They included a\u00a0charming shot of Hippuris vulgaris<\/i>\u00a0L. at Shey.\u00a0\u00a0 Family: Plantaginceae<\/i> previously Hippuridaceae<\/i>.<\/div>\n
Cannot see any entry for this species under either family on your web-site, so am posting both Marie’s shot and images taken by me in a local canal.\u00a0 Found in the UK in lakes, ponds and slow streams.<\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
One always needs to be cautious using images taken in other parts of the world, as it is possible, should this plant be studied further, that it is subdivided into varieties, subspecies or even species which do not occur in the Himalaya.\u00a0 ‘Flora of British India’ and thus ‘Flora Simlensis’ are particularly guilty of assuming a plant resembling a species known in the UK, was the same as that they observed in the Himalaya.<\/div>\n
Nevertheless, I consider it serves, for the present,\u00a0a useful purpose to show close-up detail, to encourage greater interest in aquatic plants (one of the delights of a shikara ride in Kashmir is to examine the plant life of the lake especially well away from the touristy parts of Dal Lake, which has a poor flora).\u00a0 Thus shots can be taken of this plant in Ladakh or Kashmir by others to replace my UK images. <\/div>\n
Found in the cool waters of the Northern Hemisphere.<\/font>\u00a0Records from Northern Pakistan, Ladakh (near Leh and Padam), common in Kashmir @ 1200-4500m.\u00a0 Alpine Himalaya, Tibet, W & N. China.\u00a0 Recorded from Chumbi in sluggish backwater @3660-4420m.<\/font> But not from Sikkim or Bhutan proper. <\/div>\n
Usually aquatic with stout creeping rhizome from which arise leafy shoots.\u00a0Leaves whorled, linear.\u00a0Flowers small, greenish in <\/font><\/div>\n
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<\/font>Catalogue of Life<\/a>\u00a0 <\/span>The Plant List Ver.1.1<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>IPNI<\/a>
\n\u00a0 <\/span>India Biodiversity Portal<\/a> Wikipedia<\/a> \u00a0<\/span>IUCN Red List (LC)<\/a>\u00a0 PFAF<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Flora of China<\/a>\u00a0 <\/span>FOC illustration<\/a> \u00a0<\/span>Flora of Pakistan<\/a> \u00a0<\/span>FOP illustration<\/a> Annotated checklist of Flowering plants of Nepal<\/a>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Forest Plants of Eastern India<\/a> By Amal Bhusan Chaudhuri<\/span> (1993)\u00a0 <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hippuris vulgaris L., Sp. Pl. 4 1753. (syn: Caullinia hippuroides Raf.; Hippuris eschscholtzii Cham. ex Ledeb.; Hippuris fluviatilis Hoffm.; Hippuris generalis E. H. L. Krause; Hippuris maritima Hellen.; Hippuris montana Ledeb. ex Rchb.; Hippuris palustris Gorter\u00a0; Hippuris polyphylla Raf.; Hippuris spiralis Dan Yu; Hippuris tetraphylla f. lacunarum Dutilly & Lepage\u00a0;…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[6182],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1263961","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-hippuris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1263961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1263961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1263961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1263961"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1263961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}