Plantae > Tracheophyta > Liliopsida > Alismatales > Hydrocharitaceae > Lagarosiphon > Lagarosiphon majorLagarosiphon major (oxygen-weed)Synonyms: Elodea crispa; Lagarosiphon muscoides var. major (homotypic) Lagarosiphon major is a monocotic aquatic plant native to Southern Africa. Common names include African elodea, curly waterweed, oxygen weed and South African oxygen weed. It is used as freshwater aquarium plant. It is an invasive plant in some countries. In New Zealand it is listed on the National Pest Plant Accord and is classed as a noxious weed in the United States. |
Lifespan [1] | Perennial | | Light Preference [2] | Mixed Sun/Shade | Soil Acidity [2] | Neutral | Soil Fertility [2] | Intermediate | Soil Moisture [2] | Submerged |
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Central & Western Europe |
Austria, Belgium, Byelarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom |
Palearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Upper Danube |
Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland |
Palearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1PLANTATT - Attributes of British and Irish Plants: Status, Size, Life History, Geography and Habitats, M. O. Hill, C. D. Preston & D. B. Roy, Biological Records Centre, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (2004) ♦ 2ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999) ♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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