Najas flexilis

Najas flexilis

Najas flexilis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Alismatales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Monocots Ordo: Alismatales

Familia: Hydrocharitaceae
Genus: Najas
Species: Najas flexilis

Name

Najas flexilis (Willd.) Rostk. & W.L.E.Schmidt, 1824

Synonyms

• Basionym
  • Caulinia flexilis Willd., Mém. Acad. Roy. Sci. Hist. (Berlin) 1798: 89 (1801).
• Homotypic
  • Fluvialis flexilis (Willd.) Pers., Syn. Pl. 2: 530 (1807).
• Heterotypic
  • Najas flexilis var. microcarpa Nilsson, Bot. Not. 1881: 147 (1881).
  • Najas flexilis var. robusta Morong, Bot. Gaz. 10: 255 (1885).
  • Najas flexilis var. congesta Farw., Rep. (Annual) Michigan Acad. Sci. 21: 348 (1920).
  • Najas flexilis subsp. caespitosa Maguire, Rhodora 44: 7 (1942).
  • Najas caespitosa (Maguire) Reveal, Great Basin Naturalist 35: 357 (1975).
  • Caulinia canadensis (Michx.) Val.N.Tikhom., Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 46: 27 (2015).

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Temp. Northern Hemisphere Alaska, Alberta, Altay, Amur, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, British Columbia, Buryatiya, California, Central European Rus, Chita, Connecticut, Delaware, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ireland, Irkutsk, Kentucky, Khabarovsk, Maine, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Newfoundland, North Dakota, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Norway, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Poland, Prince Edward I., Québec, Rhode I., Saskatchewan, South Dakota, Sweden, Switzerland, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Siberia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Yukon References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Rostkovius, F.W.G.T. & Schmidt, W.L.E., 1824. Flora Sedinensis exhibens plantas phanerogamas spontaneas nec non plantas praecipuas agri Swinemundii 382.

Additional references

• Cody, W.J., Bennett, B.A. & Caswell, P. (2005). New records of vascular plants in the Yukon territory VII Canadian Field-Naturalist 119: 417-436.
• Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2000). Flora of North America North of Mexico 22: 1-352. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Najas flexilis in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Oct 24. Reference page. 
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Najas flexilis in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Oct 24. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2021. Najas flexilis. Published online. Accessed: Oct 24 2021.
• Tropicos.org 2021. Najas flexilis. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 24 Oct 2021.
• Hassler, M. 2021. Najas flexilis. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2021. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Oct 24. Reference page. 
• USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Najas flexilis in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 09-Oct-10.

Vernacular names

беларуская: Каўлінія гнуткая
Deutsch: Biegsames Nixenkraut
eesti: Nõtke näkirohi
suomi: Notkeanäkinruoho
polski: Jezierza giętka

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