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Potamogeton tenuicaulis

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Identification
Potamogeton javanicus Hassk. [family POTAMOGETONACE ] (stored under name); Potamogeton tenuicaulis F.Muell. [family POTAMOGETONACEAE ] Verified by Zdenek Kaplan, Potamogeton octandrus Poir. [family POTAMOGETONACEAE ] Verified by Zdenek Kaplan,
Related name
  • Potamogeton tenuicaulis
  • Potamogeton javanicus
  • Potamogeton octandrus

Flora

Entry for POTAMOGETON javanicus Hassk. [family POTAMOGETONACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 7, page 41, (1900) Author: (By ARTHUR BENNETT.)
Names
POTAMOGETON javanicus Hassk. [family POTAMOGETONACEAE], in Verh. Natuurk. Ver. Nederl. Ind. i. 26
POTAMOGETON tenuicaulis F. Mueller [family POTAMOGETONACEAE], Frag. Fl. Austr. i. 90, 244.
POTAMOGETON parvifolia Buchenau [family POTAMOGETONACEAE], in Bremen, Abhandl. vii. 32.
POTAMOGETON huillensis Welw. [family POTAMOGETONACEAE], in Herb. Kew.; Durand and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 495.
Information
stem branched, filiform; submerged leaves sessile, narrowly linear, acute; floating leaves lanceolate, long petioled; lower stipules slightly connate, the upper ones free, acuminate; peduncles slender; spikes varying from 3–8 lin. long; fruit compressed, oblique-obovate; style straight with the ventral margin; dorsal margin 3-carinate, and strongly repand denticulate, ventral nearly straight, with a projection in the centre tapering to either end, variable as to the teeth-like projections on various parts of the fruit, which are strongest in the Australian forms. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa, Australia, Malay Archipelago, India, North China, and Japan.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; Umtshati River, 3000–4000 ft., Wood, 4300! near York, Rehmann, 9062!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Nylstroom River, Nelson, 290!

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