Podostemum ceratophyllum

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• Description
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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Family Podostemaceae

Herbs, annual or perennial , aquatic . Roots usually flattened, thalloid or filiform . Leaves distichous, scattered , or imbricate, base often sheathed, margin entire or dissected . Flowers bisexual , solitary, actinomorphic or zygomorphic, enclosed or not by a spathella or spathella lacking. Tepals 2-5, free or ± connate . Stamens 1-4, hypogynous; filaments free or partially connate; anthers 2-4-loculed, longitudinally or irregularly dehiscent . Ovary superior, 2- or 3-loculed; ovules numerous , placenta central. Styles 2 or 3. Fruit a septicidal capsule. Seeds numerous, minute, without endosperm.

About 40 genera and 200 species: widespread in tropical regions , a few species in temperate regions : three genera and four species (two endemic) in China.

The plants live attached to submerged rocks or wood in rushing water in rapids or cataracts of streams and rivers . They are easily overlooked, and more field work is needed.[1]

Physical Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,092 meters (0 to 3,583 feet).[2]

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Lacis ceratophylla (Michx.) Bong. • Podostemum abrotanoides Nutt.

Notes

Publishing author : Michx. Publication : Fl. Bar . Am. ii. 165. t. 44.

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Similar Species

Members of the genus Podostemum

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

P. ceratophyllum (Hornleaf Riverweed)

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Further Reading

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• A compendium of the flora of the northern and middle states, containing generic and specific descriptions of all the plants, exclusive of the cryptogamia, hitherto found in the United States, north of the Potomac. New York, S. B. Collins, 1826. url p. 332.
• Additions to the flora of Connecticut / E.B. Harger. .. [et al.]. Boston?: New England Botanical Club, 1917? url p. 225.
• An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions: from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian / by Nathaniel Lord Britton and Hon. Addison Brown. New York: Scribner, 1913. url p. 205.
• Bartonia;proceedings of the Philadelphia botanical club. .. 11 - 20 1929 - 19 Philadelphia, Philadelphia Botanical Club, Academy of Natural Sciences. url p. 23, p. 26, p. 9.
• Botany of the United States north of Virginia; comprising descriptions of the flowering and fern-like plants hitherto found in those states, arranged according to the natural system. With a synopsis of the genera according to the Linnean system, a New York, Harper, 1868. url p. 114.
• Botany; containing a catalogue of the indigenous and naturalized plants of the state, by Rev. M. A. Curtis. Raleigh, Printed at N. C. Institution for the deaf and dumb and blind, 1867. url p. 47.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: The Museum, 1951-1992. url p. 60.
• Catalogue of the flowering plants and ferns of Connecticut growing without cultivation / by Charles Burr Graves. .. [et al.]; Committee of the Connecticut Botanical Society. Hartford: Printed for the State Geological and Natural History Survey, 1910. url p. 213.
• Classification of wetlands and deepwater habitats of the United States / by Lewis M. Cowardin. .. [et al.]. Washington, D.C.: Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1979. url p. 38, p. 7.
• Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1892- url .
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 21 1919 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 171.
• Contributions from the University of Michigan Herbarium. 23 2001 Ann Arbor: University Herbarium, University of Michigan, 1939- url p. 313.
• Entomological news. [Philadelphia]American Entomological Society, 1925- url p. 190, p. 191.
• FWS/0BS. [Washington]Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior. url p. 36.
• Flora of Delaware and the Eastern Shore: an annotated list of the ferns and flowering plants of the peninsula of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. [Wilmington]: Society of Natural History of Delaware, 1946. url p. 135.
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• Flora of the Patuxent Research Refuge, Maryland / Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Biological Survey, [1940] url p. 5.
• Gray's new manual of botany (7th ed.--illustrated) A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, Cincinnati [etc.]American book company[c1908] url p. 441.
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Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 22, 2007:

• Canadian Museum of Nature, Canadian Museum of Nature Herbarium
• USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database
• University of Alabama Biodiversity and Systematics, Herbarium

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2651030
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-27031
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13744056
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:688492-1
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 27031
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 688492-1
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: POAB3
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 57171

Footnotes

1. Huaxing Qiu & C. Thomas Philbrick "Podostemaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 5 Page 190. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Mean = 290.090 meters (951.739 feet), Standard Deviation = 227.670 based on 282 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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