• 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 perfoliatus L.
• Common name : Perfoliate Pondweed
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : On marshes in plans, by lakes and ponds
• Comments / notes : Submerged aquatic herbs
• Flower, Fruit : February-October
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kadapa district, Vishakapatnam district, Krishna district
  • Telangana : Adilabad district
  • Karnataka : Kolar district
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Buldhana district, Kolhapur district, Pune district
  • Tamil Nadu : Cuddalore district
• World Distribution : Cosmopolitan
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1; 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.
• 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 perfoliatus. Downloaded on 23 November 2024.

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