Potamogeton Linnaeus 1753 (pondweed)

Angiospermae - Alismatales - Potamogetonaceae

Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1753. Species Plantarum 1-1200

Parent taxon: Potamogetonaceae according to F. H. Knowlton 1926

See also Berry 1914, Chandler 1963, Chauhan 1991, Knowlton 1919, Lakhanpal et al. 1976, Liu et al. 1996, Shoshani et al. 1989 and Srivastava 1991

Sister taxa: Baibiancarpus, Palaeopotamogeton, Potamogetonaceaepites, Potamogetonacecarpum, Potamogetophyllum

Subtaxa: Potamogeton geniculatus Potamogeton megaphyllus Potamogeton middendorfensis Potamogeton natans Potamogeton parva Potamogeton pectinatus Potamogeton perfoliatus Potamogeton pusillus Potamogeton pygmaeus Potamogeton robbinsii Potamogeton rutilus Potamogeton verticillatus

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Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (11 collections), Canada (2: Ontario), India (25), the United Kingdom (3), United States (3: North Carolina, Virginia, Washington)

• Pliocene of China (1), Germany (9), Italy (1), the Russian Federation (1)

• Hemphillian of United States (1: Indiana)

• Miocene to Pliocene of France (1), Germany (1)

• Miocene of Canada (1: Northwest Territories), China (1), Denmark (1), Germany (23), Japan (6), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (17), Turkey (1), United States (2: Idaho, Washington)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Germany (1)

• Oligocene of Germany (3), the Russian Federation (11), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Oregon)

• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (2: Colorado)

• Eocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), the United Kingdom (6), United States (5: Colorado, Georgia, Wyoming)

• Tertiary of Japan (2)

• Cretaceous of China (1), United States (1: South Carolina)

Total: 147 collections including 241 occurrences

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