Stems profusely branched proximally to distally, 9–45 cm × 0.3–1 mm; internodes 0.3–5.2 cm, without prickes abaxially. Leaves ascending with age, 0.5–2.6 cm, stiff in age; sheath 0.7–2.8 mm wide, apex rounded; blade 0.2–1.3 mm wide, margins conspicuously serrulate, teeth 8–22 per side, apex acute, with 1 tooth, teeth multicellular; midvein without prickles abaxially. Flowers 1–2 per axil, staminate and pistillate on same plant. Staminate flowers in distal axils, 1.2–1.9 mm; involucral beaks 2-lobed, 0.3–0.5 mm; anther 4-loculed,1 mm. Pistillate flowers in proximal axils, 2 mm; styles to 0.7 mm; stigmas 4-lobed. Seeds not recurved, whitish, fusiform, 0.7–1.5 × 0.3–0.5 mm, apex with style situated at center; testa dull, 3 cell-layers thick, pitted; aeroleareoles regularly arranged in 20 longitudinal rows, not ladderlike, 4–5-angled, longer than broad, end walls raised. Chromosome number unknown not available.

Phenology: Flowering late spring–fall.
Habitat: Slow moving streams and ponds
Elevation: 0–100 m

Distribution

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Introduced; Fla., Mexico, Central America (Guatemala), Central America (Belize), Central America (Honduras), West Indies (Cuba)

Discussion

Selected References

Davenport, L. J. 1980. In: A. Löve, ed. IOPB Cchromosome number reports. LXVII. Taxon 29: 351347--367.

Les, D. H. and R. R. Haynes. 1995. Systematics of subclass Alismatidae: A synthesis of approaches. In: P. J. Rudall et al., eds. 1995. Monocotyledons: Systematics and Evolution. 2 vols. Kew. Vol. 2, pp. 353--377 47--367.

Lower Taxa

None.

"elongating" is not a number.