Mini swordplant
Echinodorus × schlueteri
Mini swordplant
- Also known as Echinodorus cordifolius 'Mini'
- Small, light green swordplant
- Ovate to cordate leaves
- Recommendable for nano tanks
- Undemanding
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Description
This small, light green swordplant is the true Echinodorus schlueteri, however it is mostly labeled Echinodorus cordifolius 'Mini' and also known among aquarists as "E. aschersonianus". The name E. schlueteri was misapplied for decades to another, bigger swordplant whose correct name is Echinodorus × maculatus. The true E. schlueteri turned out as a hybrid between E. × maculatus and E. reptilis, therefore it is also written E. × schlueteri.
The Mini swordplant is an easy aquarium plant that does not exceed a height of 25 cm. The submerged leaves are longish egg-shaped to slightly heart-shaped and unicoloured light to middle green. The emersed leaves are more roundish with longer stalk. A typical feature of this swordplant are often spirally twisted roots. Good lighting and nutrient supply provided, it forms dense, relatively low leaf rosettes. It is well suited to the midground or as small group in the foreground of bigger tanks. In nano tanks it can also be used as solitary plant in the mid- or background. Not seldom it develops long, thin inflorescences with adventitious plantlets.
Due to its small size, Schlueter's swordplant is also recommendable for emersed layouts such as paludariums and Wabi-Kusa. During the warm period of the year it also grows well outdoor. The emersed plant is decorative due to its big, white flowers which appear on its creeping, thin inflorescences.
The plant usually denominated Echinodorus schlueteri in Germany is not identical with the plant that was scientifically described in 1981 by Karel Rataj as E. schlueteri, but is presented in this database as Echinodorus maculatus.
True E. schlueteri (sensu Rataj) is far less well-known. However, it is apparently identical with the plant sold as Echinodorus cordifolius 'Mini'. A systematic molecular examination proved that E. schlueteri is very probably a hybrid of E. maculatus and newly described Echinodorus reptilis from south-eastern South America (Lehtonen & Falck 2009). Therefore it is named Echinodorus × schlueteri by Lehtonen, marked as a hybrid by that.
When cultivated submersed, E. schlueteri is a relatively low-growing plant with unicoloured light to medium green leaves. (read more)
| Misapplied names | Echinodorus aschersonianus, Echinodorus cordifolius 'Mini' |
| Complete botanical name | Echinódorus schluéteri Rataj |
| Family | Alismataceae |
| Genus | Echinodorus |
| Difficulty | easy |
| Usage | Midground, Nano tanks, Foreground, group |
| Height | 5 - 20cm |
| Width | 5 - 20cm |
| Growth | medium |
| pH value | 5 - 7 |
| Temperature tolerance | 15 - 30°C |
| Carbonate hardness | 0 - 21°dKH |
| General hardness | 0 - 30°dGH |
| Propagation | Proliferating inflorescences, Rhizome division, Splitting, cutting off daughter plants |
| Can grow emersed? | yes |
| Source | Flowgrow |
| Misapplied names |
| Echinodorus aschersonianus, Echinodorus cordifolius 'Mini' |
| Complete botanical name |
| Echinódorus schluéteri Rataj |
| Family |
| Alismataceae |
| Genus |
| Echinodorus |
| Difficulty |
| easy |
| Usage |
| Midground, Nano tanks, Foreground, group |
| Height |
| 5 - 20cm |
| Width |
| 5 - 20cm |
| Growth |
| medium |
| pH value |
| 5 - 7 |
| Temperature tolerance |
| 15 - 30°C |
| Carbonate hardness |
| 0 - 21°dKH |
| General hardness |
| 0 - 30°dGH |
| Propagation |
| Proliferating inflorescences, Rhizome division, Splitting, cutting off daughter plants |
| Can grow emersed? |
| yes |
| Source |
| Flowgrow |
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Plant arrived in great condition. Was well packed and delivered fast.
I highly recommend Aquasabi, I've ordered here often and was always very satisfied!
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Absolut empfehlenswert!
Pflanze kam in super Zustand bei mir an. War gut verpackt und schnell geliefert.
Aquasabi kann ich nur empfehlen, habe hier schon oft bestellt und war immer sehr zufrieden!
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super beautiful healthy plant very good condition super fast delivery couldn't be better totally thrilled always happy to order again 1A*****
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super Pflanze
super schöne gesunde Pflanze sehr guter Zustand super schnelle Liieferung besser geht es nicht bin total begeistert immer wieder gerne 1A*****
I received very vital and fully grown plants, but they are perfectly suited for smaller nano aquariums and won't get any bigger than they were. (read more)
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Sehr vitale und ausgewachsene Pflanzen
Ich habe sehr vitale und ausgewachsene Pflanzen bekommen, doch sind sie für kleinere Nano Aquarien perfekt geeignet und werden nicht größer als sie waren. Es ist eigentlich eine Liebhaber Pflanze die unter dem Namen E. aschersonianus bekannt gewesen ist. Ich finde es toll wie sie von Dennerle im großen Umfang vermehrt wird.
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