''Althenia australis'' is a species of
aquatic plant
Aquatic plants are plants that have adapted to living in aquatic environments (saltwater or freshwater). They are also referred to as hydrophytes or macrophytes to distinguish them from algae and other microphytes. A macrophyte is a plant that ...
in the family
Potamogetonaceae
The Potamogetonaceae, commonly referred to as the pondweed family, is an aquatic family of monocotyledonous flowering plants. The roughly 110 known species are divided over six genera. The largest genus in the family by far is ''Potamogeton'', w ...
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Lepilaena
''Althenia'' is a genus of aquatic plants of the family Potamogetonaceae. This has long been a group of two species in the Mediterranean Europe and South Africa, but in 2016 was revised to include an Australasian relative, ''Lepilaena''.
Descri ...
''.[Ito, Y., Nr. Tanaka, P. García-Murillo, A.M. Muasya (2016]
A new delimitation of the Afro-Eurasian plant genus ''Althenia'' to include its Australasian relative, ''Lepilaena'' (Potamogetonaceae) – evidence from DNA and morphological data
''Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
''Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of evolutionary biology and phylogenetics. The journal is edited by E.A. Zimmer.
Indexing
The journal is indexed in:
*EMBiology
*Journal Citation Reports
*Scopus
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'' 98: 261-270.
References
External links
Flora of Western Australia
Potamogetonaceae
Taxa named by James Drummond (botanist)
Taxa named by William Henry Harvey
Taxa named by Paul Friedrich August Ascherson
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