| Potamogeton foliosus Raf. | |||
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| Family | Potamogetonaceae — APG family: Potamogetonaceae | ||
| Description | Stem filiform, corpressed, simple or slightly branched; leaves narrowly linear, lacking basal glands, 3-5-nerved with prominent midrib; peduncles slightly thick- ened upward, 3—10 mm long; spike subcapitate with 2-3 closely spaced whorls of two flowers each; fruit suborbicular, compressed, 2-2.5 mm long, with undulate or dentate dorsal keel and very short beak. | ||
| Ecology | Shallow water. Described from South Carolina. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Alaskan specimens belong to var. macéllus Fern. |
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.