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Taxon: Lagarosiphon major (Ridl.) Moss

Genus: Lagarosiphon
Family: Hydrocharitaceae subfamily: Anacharidoideae.
Nomen number: 316415
Place of publication: Trans. Roy. Soc. South Africa 16:193. 1928
Name verified on: 18-May-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 22-May-1997
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE FEDERAL AND STATE NOXIOUS WEED
A declared noxious weed by USDA-APHIS.
A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:
ALª, CAª, MAª, MNª, NCª, NHª, OKª, SCª, TXª, WAª.
ªAquatic. *Terrestrial. °In seed.
Link to noxious weed information from Invaders Database System

Common names:

  • African-elodea   (Source: web document) – English
  • curly waterweed   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  • oxygen-weed   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – English
  • South African oxygen-weed   (Source: web document) – English

Economic importance:


Distributional range:

      Native:
  • AFRICA
    South Tropical Africa: Zambia; Zimbabwe
    Southern Africa: Botswana; Lesotho; South Africa

      Naturalized: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)
  • naturalized in Australia, New Zealand, & Mascarenes

References:

  • Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand. (F NZeal)
  • Arnold, T. H. & B. C. De Wet, eds. 1993. Plants of southern Africa: names and distribution. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa no. 62. (Pl SAfr)
  • Botanical Society of the British Isles. 2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
  • Dyer, R. A. et al., eds. 1963–. Flora of southern Africa. (F SAfr)
  • Harden, G. J., ed. 1990–1993. Flora of New South Wales. (F NSWales)
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
  • Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia. (Noxweed Aust)
  • Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
More:

Check other databases for Lagarosiphon major (Ridl.) Moss:

  • SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
  • On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

More:
  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?316415 (09 February 2010)

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