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Aponogeton
The Aponogetonaceae (the Cape-pondweed family or aponogeton family) are a family of flowering plants in the order Alismatales.
In recent decades the family has had universal recognition by taxonomists. The APG system (1998) and APG II system (2003) treat it in the order Alismatales in the clade monocots. The family consists of only one genus, Aponogeton, with 56 known species (Christenhusz & Byng 2016 ) of aquatic plants, most of which have been included in a molecular phylogeny by Chen et al. (2015). The name was published in Supplementum Plantarum 32: 214 (1782) and is derived from a geographic location neighboring (geton) the Apono tribal district of coastal Gabon. Some species are used as ornamental plants in aquariums.
60 branches of this genus, most-observed first
cape-pondweed
speciesAponogeton distachyos
Narrowleaf Waterblommetjie
speciesAponogeton angustifolius
Rush Waterblommetjie
speciesAponogeton junceus
Aponogeton satarensis
speciesAponogeton satarensis
Aponogeton natans
speciesAponogeton natans
Desert Waterblommetjie
speciesAponogeton desertorum
Aponogeton stuhlmannii
speciesAponogeton stuhlmannii
Aponogeton jacobsenii
speciesAponogeton jacobsenii
Twotail Waterblommetjie
speciesAponogeton natalensis
Aponogeton lakhonensis
speciesAponogeton lakhonensis
Madagascan lace plant
speciesAponogeton madagascariensis
Crinkled Aponogeton
speciesAponogeton crispus
Aponogeton bullosus
speciesAponogeton bullosus
Vernal Waterblommetjie
speciesAponogeton fugax
Aponogeton queenslandicus
speciesAponogeton queenslandicus
Sehlabathebe Waterblommetjie
speciesAponogeton ranunculiflorus
Aponogeton cuneatus
speciesAponogeton cuneatus
Aponogeton elongatus
speciesAponogeton elongatus
Aponogeton lancesmithii
speciesAponogeton lancesmithii
Aponogeton nateshii
speciesAponogeton nateshii
Aponogeton kannangarae
speciesAponogeton kannangarae
Aponogeton boivinianus
speciesAponogeton boivinianus
Madagascar Sword Plant
speciesAponogeton undulatus
Aponogeton bernierianus
speciesAponogeton bernierianus
Compact Apongeton
speciesAponogeton ulvaceus
Aponogeton afroviolaceus
speciesAponogeton afroviolaceus
Aponogeton appendiculatus
speciesAponogeton appendiculatus
Aponogeton bruggenii
speciesAponogeton bruggenii
Pondweed Waterblommetjie
speciesAponogeton rehmannii
Aponogeton robinsonii
speciesAponogeton robinsonii
Aponogeton vallisnerioides
speciesAponogeton vallisnerioides
Aponogeton rigidifolius
speciesAponogeton rigidifolius
Aponogeton dassanayakei
speciesAponogeton dassanayakei
Aponogeton vanbruggenii
speciesAponogeton vanbruggenii
Aponogeton euryspermus
speciesAponogeton euryspermus
Aponogeton hexatepalus
speciesAponogeton hexatepalus
Aponogeton capuronii
speciesAponogeton capuronii
Aponogeton longiplumulosus
speciesAponogeton longiplumulosus
Aponogeton masoalaensis
speciesAponogeton masoalaensis
Aponogeton cordatus
speciesAponogeton cordatus
Aponogeton azureus
speciesAponogeton azureus
Aponogeton nudiflorus
speciesAponogeton nudiflorus
Aponogeton subconjugatus
speciesAponogeton subconjugatus
Aponogeton decaryi
speciesAponogeton decaryi
Aponogeton womersleyi
speciesAponogeton womersleyi
Aponogeton viridis
speciesAponogeton viridis
Aponogeton fotianus
speciesAponogeton fotianus
Aponogeton wolfgangianus
speciesAponogeton wolfgangianus
Aponogeton prolifer
speciesAponogeton prolifer
Aponogeton kimberleyensis
speciesAponogeton kimberleyensis
Aponogeton gottlebei
speciesAponogeton gottlebei
Aponogeton troupinii
speciesAponogeton troupinii
Aponogeton tofus
speciesAponogeton tofus
Aponogeton abyssinicus
speciesAponogeton abyssinicus
Aponogeton bogneri
speciesAponogeton bogneri
Aponogeton eggersii
speciesAponogeton eggersii
Aponogeton tenuispicatus
speciesAponogeton tenuispicatus
Aponogeton schatzianus
speciesAponogeton schatzianus
Aponogeton loriae
speciesAponogeton loriae
Aponogeton dioecus
speciesAponogeton dioecus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
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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 71977.