Althenia

Althenia
	Althenia filiformis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Alismatales
Family:	Potamogetonaceae
Genus:	Althenia; Petit
Species
	See text

Althenia is a genus of aquatic plants of the family Potamogetonaceae.^[1] This has long been a group of two species in the Mediterranean Europe and South Africa, but is recently revised to include an Australasian relative, Lepilaena.^[2]

Species

Althenia australis
Althenia bilocularis
Althenia cylindrocarpa
Althenia filiformis
Althenia marina
Althenia orientalis
Althenia patentifolia
Althenia preissii

References

↑ "United States Department of Agriculture database". Archived from the original on 2011-06-05. Retrieved 2008-04-08.
↑ Ito, Y., Nr. Tanaka, P. García-Murillo, A.M. Muasya (2016) A new delimitation of the Afro-Eurasian plant genus Althenia to include its Australasian relative, Lepilaena (Potamogetonaceae) – evidence from DNA and morphological data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 98: 261-270.

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[1] "United States Department of Agriculture database". Archived from the original on 2011-06-05. Retrieved 2008-04-08.

[2] Ito, Y., Nr. Tanaka, P. García-Murillo, A.M. Muasya (2016) A new delimitation of the Afro-Eurasian plant genus Althenia to include its Australasian relative, Lepilaena (Potamogetonaceae) – evidence from DNA and morphological data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 98: 261-270.