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Cryptocoryne wendtii de Wit

Wendt's water trumpet

Araceae · Sri Lanka

No habitat climate
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Summary

Cryptocoryne wendtii, the Wendt's water trumpet, is a species of herbaceous plant and popular aquarium plant which is native to Sri Lanka. It was described by Dutch botanist Hendrik de Wit in honour of aquarium hobbyist and writer Albert Wendt.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Cryptocoryne wendtii", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 2 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 2 of the 2 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeSri Lanka · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“helophyte or perennial” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 2 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. 7 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 2 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 11362328 (Cryptocoryne wendtii Dewit): Kew's file holds it as Cryptocoryne wendtii de Wit (accepted); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Patrick Hacker, some rights reserved (CC BY) (6).

Other Cryptocoryne 15 in the reference

Cryptocoryne affinis Cryptocoryne affinis Araceae Photo: CC BY, Zakqary RoyCryptocoryne beckettii Cryptocoryne beckettii Beckett's water trumpet Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, KenraizCryptocoryne ciliata Cryptocoryne ciliata Araceae Photo: CC BY, Ong Jyh SengCryptocoryne cordata Cryptocoryne cordata Araceae Photo: CC BY, Cheongweei Gan Cryptocoryne crispatula Araceae Cryptocoryne lingua Araceae Cryptocoryne moehlmannii Moehlmann's Cryptocoryne Cryptocoryne nevillii Cryptocoryne nevillii Araceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz Cryptocoryne parva Tiny Cryptocoryne Cryptocoryne pontederiifolia Cryptocoryne pontederiifolia Araceae Photo: CC BY, Cheongweei Gan Cryptocoryne × purpurea Araceae Cryptocoryne retrospiralis Cryptocoryne retrospiralis Antispiral Water Trumpet Photo: CC BY, Siddarth Machado all 16 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Cryptocoryne wendtii var. jahnelii; Cryptocoryne wendtii var. krauteri; Cryptocoryne wendtii var. nana; Cryptocoryne wendtii var. rubella. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Araceae
Described by
de Wit
Native to
Sri Lanka
Wild records
2 in range · 2 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 0 records of GBIF's key 11362328, Cryptocoryne wendtii Dewit (Kew's file holds it as Cryptocoryne wendtii de Wit (accepted)): GBIF occurrence search API
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-222 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 6 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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