Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Potamogeton confervoides Reichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ. 7 : 13. 1845
Potamogeton trichoides A. Gray, Man. 457. 1848. Not. P. trichoides Cham. & Schlecht. 1827. Potamogeton Tuckermani Robb. in A. Gray, Man. ed. 2. 434. 1856. 1 Potamogeton Curtisii Morong, Bull. Torrey Club 13 : 145. 1886.
Stems very slender, branched, often dichotomous above, without propagating buds; leaves all submerged, linear or capillary, and very slender, 2.5-4 cm. long, scarcely 0.2 mm. wide, 1-3-nerved, usually with cross reticulations ; stipules delicate, scarcely 5 mm. long, acute or obtuse and often splitting into shreds ; spikes globose or subglobose, 5-8 mm. long, few-flowered ; peduncles often branched, somewhat thicker upward, 2.5-12 cm. long; nutlets pitted, 3-keeled, the middle keel prominent and crisped or dentate ; embryo a complete spiral, the curved apex pointing inside the base.
Type locality : Alleghany Mountains.
Distribution : New England to New Jersey and Pennsylvania, apparently also in Florida
- bibliographic citation
- Percy Wilson, Per Axel Rydberg, Norman Taylor, Nathaniel Lord Britton, John Kunkel Small, George Valentine Nash. 1909. PANDANALES-POALES; TYPHACEAE, SPARGANACEAE, ELODEACEAE, HYDROCHARITACEAE, ZANNICHELLIACEAE, ZOSTERACEAE, CYMODOCEACEAE, NAIADACEAE, LILAEACEAE, SCHEUCHZERIACEAE, ALISMACEAE, BUTOMACEAE, POACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 17(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
