• Family : APONOGETONACEAE
  (Aponogeton Or Cape-Pondweed Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : APONOGETON FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : APONOGETONACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Aponogeton crispus Thunb.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : In ponds and ditches
• Comments / notes : Anchored hydrophyte with floating leaves in stagnant water
• Flower, Fruit : August-March
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : East Godavari district, Chittoor district
  • Karnataka : Davanagare district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Tumakuru district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district
  • Maharashtra : Ratnagiri district
  • Tamil Nadu : Kolli Hills (Namakkal district), Theerthamalai Hills (Dharmapuri district)
• World Distribution : India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state – Monocotyledons; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere
• 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=Aponogeton echinatus. Downloaded on 3 December 2024.

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