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Water Plantain (Common Name)
Alisma plantago-aquatica (Scientific Name) |
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Chara (Common Name)
Characeae spp. (Scientific Name) |
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Swamp Raspwort (Common Name)
Haloragis brownii (Scientific Name) (Reg) Regionally Threatened From Department of Natural Resources © The State of South Australia Distribution and habitat Grows on edges of swamps and dams or along watercourses, Possibly an early successional species which needs freshwater wet areas, found in, Vic. Tas. W.A. and S.A. Description Soft, perennial semi-aquatic plant to 50 cm across. Stems smooth, glabrous, rooting at the nodes. Light green stems and leaves. Leaves alternate, much divided. Small four petalled flowers in leaf axils on upper stems. Fruit oval-shaped. Flowers from October to February |
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Common Duckweed (Common Name)
Lemna disperma (Scientific Name) From Rangers Shire Council © 2009 and Ecotox services Australia Distribution and habitat Grows on edges of swamps and dams or along watercourses, in still water. In addition to being an ecologically important group, duckweeds are a sensitive and useful test organisms for testing turbid and coloured waters. This gives the duckweed an advantage over algal toxicity tests which may require filtering, compromising the sample integrity Description Leaf-like elliptic to rounded herb, 1-4mm long, with single root, floating on water. Body is slightly swollen, green above, reddish below, with 3-5 veins all rising from the same point. Single plants can join to form colonies. Minute white flowers on the margin, 1 male, 2 female. Young plants emerge from a pocket on the margin. |
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Water Mat (Common Name)
Lepilaena spp. (Scientific Name) |
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Upright Water-milfoil (Common Name)
Myriophyllum crispatum (Scientific Name) |
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Water-milfoil (Common Name)
Myriophyllum spp. (Scientific Name) |
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Stonewort (Common Name)
Nitella sp. (Scientific Name) (Reg) Regionally Threatened |
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Slender Knotweed (Common Name)
Persicaria decipiens (Scientific Name) From Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust © The State of New South Wales Distribution and habitat Grows in damp situations such as creek and lagoon banks. Widespread in eastern NSW; also in Qld, Vic, Tas, SA, NT and WA; also Norfolk Island, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Malesia, SW Asia, Mediterranean region, Africa. Description Plant decumbent to ascending, to 30 cm high. Leaves narrow-elliptic to lanceolate, 5–12 cm long, 5–13 mm wide, often with a purplish blotch near middle of upper surface, occasionally with scattered sessile glands on lower surface, veins and margins pubescent; petiole 0–7 mm long; ocrea with cilia 2–10 mm long. Spikes elongate-cylindrical, slender, rather lax, 2–6 cm long, 3–4 mm diam.; perianth segments 1.7–2.5 mm long. Achene lenticular or trigonous, 1.5–2.0 mm long, c. 1.5 mm diam., dark brown to black. A Variable species that needs further study. |
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Water-pepper (Common Name)
Persicaria hydropiper (Scientific Name) |
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Pondweed (Common Name)
Potamogeton sp. (Scientific Name) |
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Blunt Pondweed (Common Name)
Potamogeton ochreatus (Scientific Name) |
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Fennel Pondweed (Common Name)
Potamogeton pectinatus (Scientific Name) |
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Floating Pondweed (Common Name)
Potamogeton tepperi (Scientific Name) |
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Floating Pondweed [Var] (Common Name)
Potamogeton tricarinatus s.l. (Scientific Name) |
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Small River Buttercup (Common Name)
Ranunculus amphitrichus (Scientific Name) From Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust © The State of New South Wales Distribution and habitat A semi-aquatic perennial growing in such place as creek and lagoon banks and still or slow moving, shallow fresh water wetlands and streams. Found in, NSW, Vic, Tas, and N.Z. Description Glabrous or very sparsely pilose aquatic perennial, often with floating leaves and emergent flowers; stolons often with corm-like swellings at nodes. Flowering stems 7–35 cm long, simple or branched, often recurved below the flower. Leaves with lamina thin-textured, ± circular in outline, 1–10 cm diam., cut into few or numerous obtuse or subacute lobes; petiole 5–24 cm long. Flowers 7–10 mm diam. Sepals spreading. Petals 5 or rarely more, narrow-oblanceolate or oblong with cuneate base, 3–5 mm long, 0.8–1.8 mm wide, pale golden-yellow. Achenes 10–25, 1.6–2.2 mm long, lateral faces obscurely wrinkled. Receptacle at fruit stage densely pilose with short hairs among the stamens, usually glabrous among achenes. |
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Large River Buttercup (Common Name)
Ranunculus papulentus (Scientific Name) (K) poorly known |
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Swamp Selaginella (Common Name)
Selaginella uliginosa (Scientific Name) |
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Southern Water-ribbons (Common Name)
Triglochin alcockiae (Scientific Name) |
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Water Ribbons (Common Name)
Triglochin procera s.l. (Scientific Name) |
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Common Water Ribbons (Common Name)
Triglochin procerum s.l. (Scientific Name) |
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Streaked Arrowgrass (Common Name)
Triglochin striata (Scientific Name) |
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Broad-leaf Cumbungi (Common Name)
Typha orientalis (Scientific Name) |
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Narrow-leaf Cumbungi (Common Name)
Typha domingensis (Scientific Name) |
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Tiny Duckweed (Common Name)
Wolffia australiana (Scientific Name) |
