Ammannia gracilis

Ludwigia repens, Ammannia gracilis, Hygrophila policy sperm, Myriophyllum sp. (from left)

The Great Cognakpflanze ( Ammannia gracilis ), also Dainty Cognakpflanze or simply Cognakpflanze called (also written as Kognakpflanze ), a marsh plant of the family Lythraceae is ( Lythraceae ). She comes from the African region Senegambia and there is growing on river banks and in flood plains. The name derives from the cognac brown color that they develop as an aquarium plant in good light conditions.

Description

The Great Cognakpflanze grows as annual herbaceous plant, reaching heights of growth of 30 to 35 cm. The rarely erect, usually low -lying, curved, fleshy, and bare stems can grow up to 60 centimeters long and has thin, curved branches. The simple leaves sit decussate at the stems. Emergent plants develop leaves with a straightedge at a length of 2-6 inches to wrong - ovate leaf blade. Submerged plants leaves with a with a length of 7 to 12 inches long, lanceolate leaf blade.

Hunting and

In the hunting and the Dainty Cognakpflanze is a popular aquarium plants. In particular, in the Dutch planted aquarium these plants are used to create plant roads. For the successful culture of the plants require temperatures above 24 ° C and soft water. Instructed they are also a very good lighting.

Taxonomy

The first description of Ammannia gracilis was made in 1833 by Jean Baptiste Antoine Guillemin and George Samuel Perrottet in Florae Senegambiae Tentamen, 1, p 301

Swell

• Datasheet for African Plant Database.
• Kurt Paffrath: Dainty Kognakpflanze, Ammania gracilis, In: The Aquarium, 21 (1 ), 1987, pp. 40-42.