Potamogeton lucens
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| Potamogeton lucens | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| Order: | Alismatales |
| Family: | Potamogetonaceae |
| Genus: | Potamogeton |
| Species: | P.lucens |
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| Potamogeton lucens L.[1] | |
Potamogeton lucens or shining pondweed,[1] is an aquatic species in the genus Potamogeton. It is found in slow moving fresh water, found locally in the south, mid and East of England, almost rare in the rest of Great Britain.
Description
The species is fully submerged.
The leaves up to 20 cm long, 6 cm wide, translucent, yellow-green, wavy, shiny, oblong lanceolate, with a dense network of veins, minutely toothed along the edges. The leaf stalks are very short - up to about 1 cm long.
Fruits are 3 mm across.
Flowers June to September.[2]
Ecology
This species is known to be hybridized to Potamogeton wrightii in Japan [3] and China.[4]
Potamogeton lucens
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 'Potamogeton lucens was first described and published in Species Plantarum 1:126. 1753. GRIN (11 April 2005). "Potamogeton lucens information from NPGS/GRIN". Taxonomy for Plants. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
- ↑ Rose, Francis (2006). The Wild Flower Key. Frederick Warne & Co. pp. 491–492. ISBN 978-0-7232-5175-0.
- ↑ Ito, Y., Nr. Tanaka and K. Uehara (2007) Inferring the origin of Potamogeton × inbaensis (Potamogetonaceae) using nuclear and chloroplast DNA sequences. Journal of Japanese Botany 82: 20-28.
- ↑ Ito, Y. and Nr. Tanaka (2013) Additional Potamogeton hybrids from China: Evidence from a comparison of plastid trnT-trnF and nuclear ITS phylogenies. APG: Acta Phytotaxonomica et Geobotanica 64: 15-28.
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