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'''Kumudini''', is an evergreen perennial plant growing in mud and shallow water, producing stems up to 1.5 metres long from a thick rhizome. The plant is sometimes harvested from the wild for local use as a food. It is often grown in ponds and boggy areas as an ornamental. 

{{Uses|Bleeding disorders}}, {{Uses|Dysentery}}, {{Uses|Wound healing}}, {{Uses|Leucorrhoea}}, {{Uses|Menorrhagia}}.<ref name="Uses"/>

{{Common names|kn=neeru Neeru thavare|ml=nedelNedel-ambel, chinnambalChinnambal|sa=|ta=|te=anthara thaamaraAnthara Thaamara|hi=kumudiniKumudini, bara Bara chuli|en=Water snowflake}}<ref name="Common names"/>

{{Leaf|Simple||rhizome Rhizome 2-3 cm thick with prominent branch scars. Primary fertile branches many, petiole-like and uniphyllous, highly variable in length depending on the depth of water; secondary branches sympodial, zig-zag, many-jointed, trailing on water surface; each joint uniphyllous; nodes often rooting. Leaves all cauline, fertile and floating, to about 25 cm across, ovate-orbicular, base deeply cordate with narrow sinuses, entire or subentire, fleshy, glossy green above, pale and gland-dotted beneath ; petiole to 3 cm long.}}<ref name="Leaf"/>

{{Flower|Bisexial|Umbellate clusters at leaf bases|White|5-8|Flowers bisexual, distylous in umbellate clusters from the junction of the petiole and the branch; bract to 7 x 4 mm, ovate or oblong; pedicel 5-10 cm long. Calyx deeply 5-partite; lobes to 6 x 2 mm, oblong-acute, green with hyaline margins. Corolla white with yellow throat; tube c. 2 mm long; lobes 5, to 13x4 mm, elliptic or oblong, acute, densely covered with long, white hairs within. Stamens as many as corolla lobes, dimorphic; filaments yellow. Ovary bottle- shaped; stigma sinuately 4-8 lobed; disc glands as many as stamens, orbicular. }}

{{Fruit|Capsule|||Capsules ellipsoid|Seeds c. 1.5 mm across, discoid, brownish, tubercled.}}

Succeeds in full sun and partial shade. Prefers a rich, sandy loam. Plants grow best when the roots are submerged in 30 - 60cm of water. The plant can spread rather vigorously when growing in areas with warm winters. It has become naturalized in southern Florida. Individual flowers only live for one day. Plantlets are formed at the leaves and can be used for propagation. <ref name="Cultivation details"/>