• Family : POTAMOGETONACEAE
  (Pond Weed Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : POTAMOGETON FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : POTAMOGETONACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Potamogeton nodosus Poir.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Aquatic
• Comments / notes : Submerged aquatic herb in perennial water bodies with upper or all leaves floating
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district, Chittoor district, Kadapa district, Krishna district, Prakasam district, Vizianagaram district, Srikakulam district
  • Karnataka : Kolar district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Pune district, Satara district
  • Odisha : Cuttack district, Ganjam district, Sambalpur district
  • Tamil Nadu : Dharmapuri district
• World Distribution : Tropics and Temperate regions of the World
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Potamogeton nodosus. Downloaded on 4 November 2025.

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