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Althenia cylindrocarpa

Althenia cylindrocarpa is a small submerged aquatic plant of the pondweed family, found in fresh to brackish water in southern and south-eastern Australia. It grows fully underwater in still or slow-moving shallow waters.

Family
Potamogetonaceae (Potamogeton family)
Grows as
Aquatic
Light
Full sun
Water
Grows submerged in water; keep it permanently immersed.
Soil
Sandy or muddy substrate in shallow water.
Temperature
Subtropical to temperate; mild water temperatures suit it best.
How easy
Hard
Native range
S. & SE. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Althenia cylindrocarpa is a species of aquatic plant in the family Potamogetonaceae. It is found in fresh to brackish waters in Australia. This species has been transferred from Lepilaena.

Other Althenia plants

Althenia bilocularis · Althenia marina · Althenia · Althenia preissii

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Althenia cylindrocarpa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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