• 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) : Stuckenia pectinata (L.) Börner
• Common name : Fennel pondweed
• Vernacular name : Chardal (Oria)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Aquatic
• Comments / notes : In large tanks in plains; submerged
• Flower, Fruit : August-March
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, East Godavari district, Vishakapatnam district, Krishna district, Guntur district, Nellore district, Srikakulam district, West Godavari district, Prakasam district, Vizianagaram district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Davanagare district, Hassan district, Mysuru district, Raichur district, Tumakuru district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Maharashtra : Buldhana district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Pune district, Solapur district
  • Odisha : Puri district, Khurda district, Ganjam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Throughout Tamil Nadu
• World Distribution : Cosmopolitan
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; 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; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore District; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere District
• 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 pectinatus. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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