''Lagarosiphon major'' is a
monocotic 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 ...
native to
Southern Africa. Common names include African elodea, curly waterweed, oxygen weed and South African oxygen weed. It is used as freshwater aquarium plant.
It is an
invasive plant in some countries. In
New Zealand it is listed on the
National Pest Plant Accord and is classed as a noxious weed in the
United States. ''Lagarosiphon Major'' was added to the
European Union's
List of Invasive Alien Species of Union concern on 3 August 2016. This means - amongst other things- that it is illegal to sell this plant in the whole of the European Union or to dump it in the environment.
Distribution
Ireland: Co.Galway in parts of upper Lough Corrib.
[Pybus, C. and O'Halloran, P. 2009. Distribution of some submerged aquatic macrophytes in the Eglinton Canal. ''Ir. Nat. J.'' 30: 51-53.]
References
External links
Global Invasive Species DatabaseSpecies Profile - Oxygen Weed (''Lagarosiphon major'').National Invasive Species Information Center,
United States National Agricultural Library
Hydrocharitaceae
Flora of Southern Africa
Freshwater plants
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