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Limnobium

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Perennial, glabrous aquatic herbs. Roots 1 at each node with prominent root-hairs. Leaves floating, with a spongy layer of tissue on the underside; petioles long. Inflorescences unisexual. Male inflorescences sessile or pedunculate with flowers projecting above the water; sepals 3, greenish-white to yellowish; petals 3; stamens in 1-6 whorls of 3 with filaments united in a column. Female inflorescences usually sessile with fewer flowers; sepals and petals similar to those of male flowers; staminodes 2-6; ovary with 3-9 united carpels. Fruit ellipsoid to spherical, beaked.
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Limnobium Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=2370
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Limnobium

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Limnobium, common names spongeplant[2] and American frogbit,[3] is a group of aquatic plants in the Hydrocharitaceae described as a genus in 1814.[4][5] It is widespread in freshwater environments in Latin America, the West Indies, and the United States.[1][6][7][8][3]

Species

  1. Limnobium laevigatum (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Heine - Mexico, Central and South America, West Indies
  2. Limnobium spongia (Bosc) Steud. - USA (Lower Mississippi Valley, Southern Coastal Plain from TX to DE; occasionally elsewhere as a waif)[9]

Formerly included

Limnobium dubium (Blume) Shäffer-Fehre - Hydrocharis dubia (Blume) Backer

References

  1. ^ a b "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew". apps.kew.org. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
  2. ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Limnobium". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  3. ^ a b "Limnobium spongia in Flora of North America @ efloras.org". www.efloras.org. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
  4. ^ Richard, Louis Claude Marie. 1814. Mémoires de la Classe des Sciences Mathématiques et Physiques de L'Institut National de France 12(2): 66
  5. ^ "Tropicos | Name - Limnobium Rich". www.tropicos.org. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
  6. ^ Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1958. Hydrocharitaceae. In Standley, P.C. & Steyermark, J.A. (Eds), Flora of Guatemala - Part I. Fieldiana, Botany 24(1): 84–86.
  7. ^ Cook, C. D. K. , and K. Urmi-König. 1983. A revision of the genus Limnobium including Hydromystria (Hydrocharitaceae). Aquatic Botany 17: 1--27.
  8. ^ Hunziker, A. T. 1981. Hydromystria laevigata (Hydrocharitaceae) en el centro de Argentina. Lorentzia 4: 5--8.
  9. ^ Biota of North America Program, 2013 county distribution map Image
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Limnobium: Brief Summary

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Limnobium, common names spongeplant and American frogbit, is a group of aquatic plants in the Hydrocharitaceae described as a genus in 1814. It is widespread in freshwater environments in Latin America, the West Indies, and the United States.

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