tzayanalquilitl.

Headword: 
tzayanalquilitl.
Principal English Translation: 

an edible aquatic plant whose leaves are divided in two (see also tzayanalli)

Attestations from sources in English: 

This plant with hollow branches like reeds, which lives in the water, is pictured and glossed in the Florentine Codex Book 11, folio 134r. See folio 136r. for added description.
Sahagún, Bernardino de, Antonio Valeriano, Alonso Vegerano, Martín Jacobita, Pedro de San Buenaventura, Diego de Grado, Bonifacio Maximiliano, Mateo Severino, et al. Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (Florentine Codex), Ms. Mediceo Palatino 218–20, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, MiBACT, 1577. Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter, Alicia Maria Houtrouw, Kevin Terraciano, Jeanette Peterson, Diana Magaloni, and Lisa Sousa, bk. 11, fol. 134r. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/134r . Accessed 18 November 2025.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

tzayanalquilitl = tzayanal-quilitl: tzayanalli, hendido, cortado en dos; quilitl, cortado o dividido en dos. Es una yerba acuática cuyas hojas están cortadas en dos. A esta circunstancia debe referirse el nombre.
Manuel Urbina, Plantas comestibles de los antiguos mexicanos (1904), 514.

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking
Plants, Trees, Flora
See also: 
tzayanalli.
quilitl.