| Isoetes muricata subsp. maritima (Underw.) Hult. | |||
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| Family | Isoetaceae — APG family: Isoetaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Isoetes maritima Underw., Isoetes macounii A. A. Eat., Isoetes braunii var. maritima (Underw.) Pfeiffer, Isoetes beringensis Kom. | ||
| Description | Leaves 2.5-5 cm long, green, slender, with fine-pointed tip and wide membranous border at base; stomata numerous; ligules triangular, a little longer than wide; velum covering half the sporangium or less; gynospores with thick, blunt spines, sometimes confluent into toothed ridges; androspores chiefly papillose. | ||
| Ecology | Shallow water. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | In need of further detailed study. |
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.