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Althenia is a small genus of submerged aquatic herbs in the Potamogetonaceae family, native to Mediterranean Europe and South Africa, with an Australasian relative added in 2016. Its bristle-like leaves grow in clusters at the stem nodes, and it lives fully underwater in ponds, lagoons and brackish shallows.
Althenia is a genus of aquatic plants of the family Potamogetonaceae. This has long been a group of two species in the Mediterranean Europe and South Africa, but in 2016 was revised to include an Australasian relative, Lepilaena. The genus is named after the agronomist Jean Althen.
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