Elodea najas (Planch.) Casp.
First published in Monatsber. Königl. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1857: 49 (1857)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is E. Bolivia to Brazil and NE. Argentina. It is a hydrosubshrub and grows primarily in the subtropical biome.
Distribution
Native to:
Argentina Northeast, Bolivia, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Paraguay, Uruguay
Synonyms
Homotypic Synonyms
- Anacharis naias (Planch.) Vict. in Contr. Lab. Bot. Univ. Montréal 18: 42 (1931)
- Egeria najas Planch. in Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 3, 11: 80 (1849)
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Anacharis hilariana Casp. in Monatsber. Königl. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1857: 13 (1857)
- Elodea guyanensis f. longifolia Chodat & Hassl. in Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2, 3: 1033 (1903)
- Elodea kochii Herter in Revista Sudamer. Bot. 6: 134 (1940)
- Elodea paraguayensis Herter in Revista Sudamer. Bot. 6: 134 (1940), nom. illeg.
Publications
An alternative taxonomy had been proposed by the following authorities:
- Govaerts, R.H.A. (2011). World checklist of selected plant families published update Facilitated by the Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Egeria najas.]
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Jørgensen, P.M., Nee, M.H. & Beck., S.G. (eds.) (2013). Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 127: 1-1741. Missouri Botanical Garden.
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
| Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 1983 | Hassler, E. [3384], Paraguay | Egeria najas | K000587184 | isotype | Yes |
| Jan 1, 1983 | Gardner [5238], Brazil | Egeria najas | K000587183 | isotype | Yes |
| Jan 1, 1983 | Gardner [5238], Brazil | Egeria najas | K000587182 | holotype | Yes |
Sources
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
- Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Science Photographs
- Copyright applied to individual images