English Common Name: banana-plant, big floating-heart, fairy water-lily
Chinese Common Name: 香蕉草 xiāng jiāo cǎo
Family: Menyanthaceae
Genus: Nymphoides
Distribution: native to the southeastern United States from Texas to Maryland
Type: Godfrey & Tryon 405, 10 Jul 1939 – GH, from 2 mi NE of Lane, Williamsburg County, South Carolina, neotype,designated by Ward, D. B. 2007 in Thomas Walter typification project, IV: neotypes and epitypes for 43 Walter names, of genera A through C. J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 1(2): 1094
