- Family : POTAMOGETONACEAE
(Pond Weed Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : POTAMOGETON FAMILY
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Potamogetonaceae
- Synonym(s) : Hydrogeton heterophyllus Lour.; Potamogeton asiaticus A.Benn.; Potamogeton hubeiensis W.X.Wang, X.Z.Sun & H.Q.Wang; Potamogeton iriomotensis Masam.; Potamogeton limosellifolius Maxim. ex Korsh.; Potamogeton mizuhikimo Makino; Potamogeton numasakianus A.Benn.; Potamogeton octandrus var. asiaticus (A.Benn.) Tzvelev; Potamogeton octandrus subsp. limosellifolius (Maxim. ex Korsh.) Vorosch.; Potamogeton octandrus var. limosellifolius (Maxim. ex Korsh.) Tzvelev; Potamogeton octandrus var. mizuhikimo (Makino) H.Hara; Potamogeton subfuscus A.Benn.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Potamogeton octandrus Poir.
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Aquatic
- Comments / notes : River banks and brackish water in coastal areas
- Key identification features : Perennial, aquatic, branched herbs; Lower leaves filiform, upper leaves elliptic or oblong-Ianceolate; Flowers on short peduncled spikes, greenish; Drupelets ovoid, tubercled.
- Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
- Kerala : Alappuzha district
- Odisha : Puri district, Khurda district, Ganjam district
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng, Subansiri
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Amur, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Hainan, India, Inner Mongolia, Japan, Khabarovsk, Korea, Manchuria, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Primorye, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Amur, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Hainan, India, Inner Mongolia, Japan, Khabarovsk, Korea, Manchuria, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Primorye, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
- 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
- Pullaiah, 1997. Fl. Andhra Pradesh, vol. 3
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 243-244
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Potamogeton octandrus. Downloaded on 8 October 2024.
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