Alisma canaliculatumA.Braun & C.D.Bouché

WFO wfo-0000755394 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC0

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Alisma canaliculatum, photographed by 葉子
fig. a 葉子, CC0 1.0 / 2021-09-07 / obs. 173587427
Alisma canaliculatum, photographed by 葉子
fig. b 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 173587424
Alisma canaliculatum, photographed by 葉子
fig. c 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 173587470
Alisma canaliculatum, photographed by 葉子
fig. d 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 173587479

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Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Alisma canaliculatum is native: China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Japan, Korea, Kuril Is., Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Assam, East Himalaya, West Himalaya China North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastJapanTaiwanAssamEast HimalayaWest Himalaya KoreaNansei-shoto
Native distribution of Alisma canaliculatum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
China North-Central CHN ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Japan JAP
Korea KOR
Kuril Is. KUR
Nansei-shoto NNS
Taiwan TAI
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
East Himalaya EHM
West Himalaya WHM

Not drawn on the map: Kuril Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 3 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Alisma canaliculatum var. azuminoense Kadono & S.Hamashima
  • Alisma canaliculatum var. harimense Makino
  • Alisma plantago-aquatica var. canaliculatum (A.Braun & C.D.Bouché) Miyabe & Kudo

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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