''Najas madagascariensis'', called the Madagascar water nymph, is an

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 ...

growing in fresh water ponds. It is native known from

Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...

and naturalized on the Island of

Mauritius Mauritius ( ; french: Maurice, link=no ; mfe, label=Mauritian Creole, Moris ), officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about off the southeast coast of the African continent, east of Madagascar. It incl ...

.Alfred Barton Rendle. 1899. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 5: 402–403, t. 40: f. 55–63, ''Najas madagascariensis ''

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15577410 madagascariensis Aquatic plants Flora of Mauritius Flora of Madagascar Plants described in 1899