| Zannichellia palustris L. | |||
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| Family | Potamogetonaceae — APG family: Potamogetonaceae | ||
| Common name | horned pondweed | ||
| Description | Stem branched, capillary, leaves submerged, linear, filiform, acute, with sheathed membranaceous stipules; male flowers with 1 stamen, female usually with 4 carpels; fruit short-stalked, straight or slightly curved, smooth or slightly dentate on back, about 2 mm long, with slender beak. | ||
| Ecology | Mostly in brackish water. Described from Europe and Virginia. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Probably considerably more common than would be suggested by two collections known from area of interest. |
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.