Najas

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Najas
Najas marina
Najas marina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Order: Alismatales
Family: Hydrocharitaceae
Genus: Najas
L. (1753)
Species

Najas filifolia
Najas flexilis
Najas gracillima
Najas grminea
Najas guadelupensis
Najas japonica
Najas marina
Najas minor
Najas wrightiana

Najas is the botanical name of a genus of aquatic plants. It is cosmopolitan in distribution, totalling a few dozen species. It usually is taken as constituting (by itself) the family Najadaceae.

The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, of 1998), places the genus in family Hydrocharitaceae, in the order Alismatales of the monocots.

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