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Trapa natans (Water chestnut, Water caltrops, Saligot, Horn nut, Jesuit's nut, Ling nut, Singhara nut)

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Eudicotyledons > Core Eudicots > Rosids > Eurosid II > Order: Myrtales > Family: Lythraceae > Genus: Trapa

Trapa natans (Water chestnut, Water caltrops, Saligot, Horn nut, Jesuit's nut, Ling nut, Singhara nut)
Trapa natans (Water chestnut, Water caltrops, Saligot, Horn nut, Jesuit's nut, Ling nut, Singhara nut)  

Trapa natans, Shire River, Mozambique. [photos John Burrows ©]