Vallisneria americana

Taxonavigation edit

Taxonavigation: Alismatales 
Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Ordo: Alismatales

Familia: Hydrocharitaceae
Genus: Vallisneria
Species: V. americana – V. anhuiensis – V. annua – V. australis – V. caulescens – V. denseserrulata – V. erecta – V. longipedunculata – V. nana – V. natans – V. rubra – V. spinulosa – V. spiralis – V. triptera

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Name edit

Vallisneria L., 1753

Synonyms edit

  • Heterotypic
    • Physkium Lour., Fl. Cochinch.: 662 (1790).
    • Maidenia Rendle, J. Bot. 54: 316 (1916).

Distribution edit

Native distribution areas:
  • Continental: Cosmopolitan
      • Afghanistan, Alabama, Algeria, Assam, Bangladesh, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burundi, Caprivi Strip, Central African Repu, Chad, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Congo, Connecticut, Cuba, Delaware, District of Columbia, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Florida, France, Georgia, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Illinois, India, Indiana, Iowa, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kentucky, Kenya, Kirgizstan, Korea, KwaZulu-Natal, Lebanon-Syria, Louisiana, Maine, Malawi, Mali, Manchuria, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New South Wales, New York, Nigeria, North Carolina, North Caucasus, Northern Territory, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Palestine, Pennsylvania, Philippines, Portugal, Primorye, Queensland, Québec, Rhode I., Romania, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Australia, South Carolina, South Dakota, South European Russi, Spain, Sudan, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tasmania, Tennessee, Texas, Thailand, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vermont, Victoria, Vietnam, Virginia, Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, West Virginia, Western Australia, Wisconsin, Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
    • Introduced into:
      • Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Mauritius, Netherlands, Réunion

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

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Vernacular names edit

čeština: Zákruticha
Deutsch: Wasserschrauben, Vallisnerien
English: eelgrass, tape grass, vallis
suomi: Vallisneriat
hornjoserbsce: Wódna wjerćawka
日本語: セキショウモ属
ქართული: ვალისნერია
қазақша: Бұрандажапырақ
lietuvių: Valisnerija
polski: Nurzaniec (roślina)
русский: Валлиснерия
oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча: Vallisneriya
中文: 苦草属


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