Limnobium
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| Limnobium laevigatum | |
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| Genus: | Limnobium |
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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[1]
- 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[1]
Limnobium dubium (Blume) Shäffer-Fehre - Hydrocharis dubia (Blume) Backer
References
- ^ a b c d Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Limnobium". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
- ^ a b Flora of North America Vol. 22 American frogbit Limnobium spongia (Bosc) Richard ex Steudel, Nomenclator Botanicus. Editio secunda. 2: 45. 1841.
- ^ Richard, Louis Claude Marie. 1814. Mémoires de la Classe des Sciences Mathématiques et Physiques de L'Institut National de France 12(2): 66
- ^ Tropicos, Limnobium Rich.
- ^ 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
