Potamogeton heterophyllus Schreb.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Potamogetonaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Stems slender, compressed, much branched, sometimes 4 m. long. Floating leaves pointed at the apex, mostly rounded or subcordate at the base, 1.5 10 cm. long, 8-30 mm. wide, 10-18-nerved, on petioles 2-1 1 cm. long; submerged leaves pellucid, sessile, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, cuspidate, rather stiff, 2-15 cm. long, 2-16 mm. wide, 3-9-nerved, the uppermost often petioled; peduncles often thickened upward, sometimes clustered; stipules spreading, obtuse, 1.5-2.5 cm. long; spikes 1.8-4 em. long; fruit roundish or obliquely obovoid, 2-3 mm. long, 1-2 mm. thick, indistinctly 3-keeled; style short, obtuse, apical; apex of the embryo nearly touching the base, pointing slightly inside of it.
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Distribution
In fresh water pools and ditches. Great Bahama, Andros, New Providence, Great Exuma : North America and Europe. Pondweed.
South Andros Bahamas South America| New Providence Bahamas South America| Exuma Bahamas South America| North America| Europe|