Biology:Limnobium
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Short description: Genus of aquatic plants
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| Limnobium laevigatum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Alismatales |
| Family: | Hydrocharitaceae |
| Subfamily: | Hydrocharitoideae |
| Genus: | Limnobium Rich. 1814 not Schimp. 1853 (syn of Hygrohypnum in Amblystegiaceae, a bryophyte) |
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Limnobium, common names spongeplant[2] and American frogbit,[3] is a group of aquatic plants in the Hydrocharitaceae described as a genus in 1814.[4][5] It is widespread in freshwater environments in Latin America, the West Indies, and the United States .[1][6][7][8][3]
Species
- Limnobium laevigatum (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Heine - Mexico, Central and South America, West Indies
- Limnobium spongia (Bosc) Steud. - USA (Lower Mississippi Valley, Southern Coastal Plain from TX to DE; occasionally elsewhere as a waif)[9]
Formerly included
Limnobium dubium (Blume) Shäffer-Fehre - Hydrocharis dubia (Blume) Backer
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew" (in en-GB). http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=308196.
- ↑ "Limnobium". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=LIMNO. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Limnobium spongia in Flora of North America @ efloras.org". http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=222000213.
- ↑ Richard, Louis Claude Marie. 1814. Mémoires de la Classe des Sciences Mathématiques et Physiques de L'Institut National de France 12(2): 66
- ↑ "Tropicos | Name - Limnobium Rich.". http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40006891.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Cook, C. D. K. , and K. Urmi-König. 1983. A revision of the genus Limnobium including Hydromystria (Hydrocharitaceae). Aquatic Botany 17: 1--27.
- ↑ Hunziker, A. T. 1981. Hydromystria laevigata (Hydrocharitaceae) en el centro de Argentina. Lorentzia 4: 5--8.
- ↑ Biota of North America Program, 2013 county distribution map Image
Wikidata ☰ Q643368 entry
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