pondweed family
Potamogetonaceae
The Potamogetonaceae, commonly referred to as the pondweed family, are an aquatic family of monocotyledonous flowering plants. The roughly 110 known species are divided over six genera (Christenhusz & Byng 2016 ). The largest genus in the family by far is Potamogeton, which contains about 100 species.
5 branches of this family, most-observed first
Pondweeds
genusPotamogeton
Stuckenia
genusStuckenia
Zannichellia
genusZannichellia
Groenlandia
genusGroenlandia
Althenia
genusAlthenia
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 59109.