Diversity Phylogeny Evol. Monocotyledons 73 (2010) APNI
Taxonomic status:Accepted
Occurrence status:Present
Establishment means:Native
Similar to Cycnogeton procerum but plants never robust; tubers smaller and plumper, 8–20(–28) mm long, 5–12 mm diam., 1–3 times as long as broad; leaves smaller and more slender, their emerged portions floating, never erect, (6–)26–91 cm long, (1–)2–8 mm wide; scape at fruiting usually shorter and more slender, c. 27–67 cm long, c. 1.5–6 mm diam.; mature fruits distinctive in shape and fewer, 1–67 per infructescence, usually somewhat broader than long, globular to depressed globular in outline, 5.6–8.7 mm long and 6.6–9.9 mm diam.; mature carpels ventrally attached along only the lower 20–39% of the carpel length (the free upper portion of the carpels may be partially spiralled around each other), each with broad-convex dorsal and lateral ridges; all (5 or)6 carpels mature or else 1 or 2 (sometimes more) abort. Fruits (Sep.–)Oct.–Dec.(–Jan.).
CVU, DunT, GipP, Glep, Gold, GGr, HSF, LoM, OtP, VVP, WaP, Wim. Also SA, Tas. Occasional in small streams, stagnant water or coastal brackish habitats.
Bioregion | Occurrence status | Establishment means | |
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Lowan Mallee | present | native | |
Wimmera | present | native | |
Glenelg Plain | present | native | |
Victorian Volcanic Plain | present | native | |
Gippsland Plain | present | native | |
Otway Plain | present | native | |
Warrnambool Plain | present | native | |
Goldfields | present | native | |
Central Victorian Uplands | present | native | |
Greater Grampians | present | native | |
Dundas Tablelands | present | native | |
Highlands-Southern Fall | present | native |
State |
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South Australia |
New South Wales |
Victoria |
Tasmania |