| Isoetes muricata var. braunii (Dur.) Reed | |||
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| Family | Isoetaceae — APG family: Isoetaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Isoetes braunii Dur. | ||
| Description | Leaves 3-10 cm long, dark-green, half-erect in water, rigid, usually curved backward; stomata few, on tips of leaves; ligules deltoid; velum half-covering the spo- rangium; gynospores covered with broad, occasionally forked or toothed spinules; androspores smooth, very numerous. | ||
| Ecology | Shallow water. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of the closely related I. seticea Lam. (I. echinospora Dur.), of which I. muricata var. Braunii might well be regarded as a race. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.