Volume III (1980) - Flora of New Zealand Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous & Spathaceous Monocotyledons
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Potamogeton ochreatus Raoul

P. ochreatus Raoul Ann. Sci. Nat. (Paris) ser. 3, 2, 1844, 117.

Leaves all submersed, sessile, linear-oblong, 2-5 mm wide, flat, with numerous fine longitudinal nerves; stipules free, disintegrating into fibres. Spike to 1.5 cm long, dense. Achenes flattened with ± 3-ridged keel, beak well-developed, curved.

N., S., A. In open, sometimes slow-moving waters.

FL. 11-2-(4). FT. 12-3-(4).

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