Vallisneria

Classification
Phylum – Angiosperm
Class – Monocotyledonous
Order – Alismatales
Family – Hydrocharitaceae
Genus – Vallisneria
Characteristics
• Vallisneria are submerged perennial plants that thrive in freshwater and brackish environments.
• They are typically tall plants with Ribbon or tape like leaves that developed from Basal Meristem.
• They are dioecious, which means that a single plant can produce either male or female blooms.
• Female flowers are carried on long, Slender, spiral coiled scapes. They are unseen ,greenish and
float on the water surface the male flowers develop near the base.
• Their leaves are brilliant green, rosulate, long, broad or narrow depending on the species
and they ascend to the surface to produce thick green tangles that some fish species use for
spawning.
Citation:-https://plants.ifas.ufl.edu/plant-directory/vallisneria-americana/