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Myriophyllum caput-medusae Orchard
Family Haloragaceae
Common name: Cat-tail, Coarse Water-milfoil

Myriophyllum caput-medusae Orchard APNI*

Description: Perennial aquatic herb; usually stems 3–4 mm diam., rooting at the base, emergent parts much-branched.

Submerged leaves whorled; emergent leaves in whorls of 3–5 at the base, becoming alternate towards the apex, oblong to ovate, mostly 6–10 mm long, up to 3 mm wide, entire, glaucous, ± red-tipped.

Plants monoecious; male and female flowers on the same shoot, solitary in the axils. Male flowers sessile; sepals triangular; petals c. 2.5 mm long, yellow to reddish. Female flowers sessile; sepals absent; petals vestigial; stigmas reddish. Mericarps cylindrical, c. 1.5 mm long, olive-brown, rounded and densely spinose.


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Distribution and occurrence: in lakes and backwaters of slowly moving watercourses.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, CT, ST, SWS, SWP
Other Australian states: Vic. S.A.
AVH map***

Text by Peter G. Wilson
Taxon concept: A.E. Orchard (1990)


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