Potamogeton crispus

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Potamogeton crispus

Description

Flowers 5-8, with 4 carpels. Fruits broadly ovate, 4-6 mm, adnate at base, obscurely toothed on the median ridge of the back, beak elongate, c. 2 mm.

Distribution

Africa present, Asia present, Asia-Tropical: Sumatera (Sumatera present), Australasia, Europe present, N America present, New Zealand present, southern S America present
Subcosmopolitan (N America, southern S America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, probably only recently introduced in some areas); in Malesia: Sumatra, one record only, fide .

Citation

Hagstr. 1916 – In: Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakad. Handl.: 58
A.Benn. 1914 – In: Philipp. J. Sc., Bot.: 341