Limnobium

American frogbit
Limnobium laevigatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Hydrocharitaceae
Genus: Limnobium
Rich. 1814 not Schimp. 1853 (syn of Hygrohypnum in Amblystegiaceae, a bryophyte)
Synonyms[1]
  • Hydromystria G.Mey.
  • Jalambicea (Cerv.) Cerv.
  • Rhizakenia Raf.
  • Trianea H.Karst.
  • Hydrocharella Spruce ex Benth. & Hook.f.

Limnobium common name American frogbit,[2] is a group of aquatic plants in the Hydrocharitaceae described as a genus in 1814.[3][4] It is widespread in freshwater environments in Latin America, the West Indies, and the United States.[1][5][6][7][2]


species[1]
  1. Limnobium laevigatum (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Heine - Mexico, Central and South America, West Indies
  2. Limnobium spongia (Bosc) Steud. - USA (Lower Mississippi Valley, Southern Coastal Plain from TX to DE; occasionally elsewhere as a waif)[8]
formerly included[1]

Limnobium dubium (Blume) Shäffer-Fehre - Hydrocharis dubia (Blume) Backer

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Flora of North America Vol. 22 American frogbit Limnobium spongia (Bosc) Richard ex Steudel, Nomenclator Botanicus. Editio secunda. 2: 45. 1841.
  3. ↑ Richard, Louis Claude Marie. 1814. Mémoires de la Classe des Sciences Mathématiques et Physiques de L'Institut National de France 12(2): 66
  4. ↑ Tropicos, Limnobium Rich.
  5. ↑ Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1958. Hydrocharitaceae. In Standley, P.C. & Steyermark, J.A. (Eds), Flora of Guatemala - Part I. Fieldiana, Botany 24(1): 84–86.
  6. ↑ Cook, C. D. K. , and K. Urmi-König. 1983. A revision of the genus Limnobium including Hydromystria (Hydrocharitaceae). Aquatic Botany 17: 1--27.
  7. ↑ Hunziker, A. T. 1981. Hydromystria laevigata (Hydrocharitaceae) en el centro de Argentina. Lorentzia 4: 5--8.
  8. ↑ Biota of North America Program, 2013 county distribution map