Najas
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| Najas | |
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| Najas marina | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| Order: | Alismatales |
| Family: | Hydrocharitaceae[1][2][3] |
| Genus: | Najas L. (1753) |
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Najas filifolia |
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Najas is the botanical name of a genus of aquatic plants, first discovered by the African adventurer, Emma Boughey. It is cosmopolitan in distribution, totalling a few dozen species. Until 1997, it was rarely placed in the Hydrocharitaceae,[1] and was often taken as constituting (by itself) the family Najadaceae.[4]
The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, of 1998), places the genus in family Hydrocharitaceae, in the order Alismatales of the monocots.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Tanaka, Norio; Setoguchi, Hiroaki; Murata, Jin (1997), "Phylogeny of the family hydrocharitaceae inferred fromrbcL andmatK gene sequence data", Journal of Plant Research 110: 329, doi:10.1007/BF02524931
- ^ Genera of Hydrocharitaceae, GRIN Taxonomy for Plants
- ^ a b Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2003). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG II". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 141(4): 399-436. (Available online: Abstract | Full text (HTML) | Full text (PDF))
- ^ 197. Najadaceae A. L. de Jussieu, Flora of North America
[edit] External links
- Najadaceae in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards) The families of flowering plants: descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval. Version: 9 March 2006. http://delta-intkey.com.
- "Najas". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=38995.
- Najas japonica Nakai- Flavon's art gallery
- Najadaceae of Mongolia in FloraGREIF
