''Potamogeton octandrus'' is an aquatic plant 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. The

specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

means 'eight-stamened'.

Distribution and habitat

This is a common plant in lakes and ponds. It is known from Africa, Asia (Russian Far East, Mongolia, Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam (type), Indonesia (type of ''P''. ''javanicus''), and Papua New Guinea), and Australia (type of ''P''. ''tenuicaulis'').Ito, Y. (2013) New records of aquatic plants for the flora of Thailand: ''Nechamandra'' ''alternifolia'' and ''Potamogeton'' ''octandrus''. ''Thai Forest Bulletin'' 41: xxx-xxx

Description

Aquatic herb.

References

Freshwater plants octandrus {{Alismatales-stub