''Potamogeton maackianus'' 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 ...

species in the genus ''

Potamogeton ''Potamogeton'' is a genus of aquatic, mostly freshwater, plants of the family Potamogetonaceae. Most are known by the common name pondweed, although many unrelated plants may be called pondweed, such as Canadian pondweed (''Elodea canadensis'' ...

''. It is found in slow moving

fresh water Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids. Although the term specifically excludes seawater and brackish water, it does include ...

Distribution and habitat

This is a common plant in lakes and ponds. It is known from Asian fresh waters of Russian Far East, Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Philippines, and Myanmar. (India was included in Fl. Malesiana, but the original literature has not found).Ito, Y., T. Ohi-Toma, Nb. Tanaka, and J. Murata (2009) New or noteworthy plant collections from Myanmar (3) ''Caldesia parnassifolia'', ''Nechamandra alternifolia'', ''Potamogeton maackianus'' and ''P''. ''octandrus''. ''Journal of Japanese Botany'' 84: 321-329.

Description

Aquatic herb.

References

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