Limnobium

Limnobium, common names spongeplant[2] and American frogbit,[3] is a group of aquatic plants in the Hydrocharitaceae described as a genus in 1814.[4][5] It is widespread in freshwater environments in Latin America, the West Indies, and the United States.[1][6][7][8][3]

American frogbit
Limnobium laevigatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Hydrocharitaceae
Subfamily: Hydrocharitoideae
Genus: Limnobium
Rich. 1814 not Schimp. 1853 (syn of Hygrohypnum in Amblystegiaceae, a bryophyte)
Synonyms[1]
  • Hydromystria G.Mey.
  • Jalambicea (Cerv.) Cerv.
  • Rhizakenia Raf.
  • Trianea H.Karst.
  • Hydrocharella Spruce ex Benth. & Hook.f.

Species
  1. Limnobium laevigatum (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Heine - Mexico, Central and South America, West Indies
  2. Limnobium spongia (Bosc) Steud. - USA (Lower Mississippi Valley, Southern Coastal Plain from TX to DE; occasionally elsewhere as a waif)[9]

Formerly included

Limnobium dubium (Blume) Shäffer-Fehre - Hydrocharis dubia (Blume) Backer

References
  1. "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew". apps.kew.org. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
  2. "Limnobium". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  3. "Limnobium spongia in Flora of North America @ efloras.org". www.efloras.org. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
  4. Richard, Louis Claude Marie. 1814. Mémoires de la Classe des Sciences Mathématiques et Physiques de L'Institut National de France 12(2): 66
  5. "Tropicos | Name - Limnobium Rich". www.tropicos.org. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
  6. Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1958. Hydrocharitaceae. In Standley, P.C. & Steyermark, J.A. (Eds), Flora of Guatemala - Part I. Fieldiana, Botany 24(1): 84–86.
  7. Cook, C. D. K. , and K. Urmi-König. 1983. A revision of the genus Limnobium including Hydromystria (Hydrocharitaceae). Aquatic Botany 17: 1--27.
  8. Hunziker, A. T. 1981. Hydromystria laevigata (Hydrocharitaceae) en el centro de Argentina. Lorentzia 4: 5--8.
  9. Biota of North America Program, 2013 county distribution map Image
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