Egeria densa Planch.

English: Brazilian elodea, Brazilian waterweed

German: Dichtblättrige Wasserpest

Mandarin: 水蕴草 (shui yun cao)

Portuguese: Elódea

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Liliopsida (397)

      Order: Hydrocharitales (3)

        Family: Hydrocharitaceae (4)(family description)

          Genus: Egeria (1)

            Epithet: densa Planch. (1)

Synonyms: Anacharis densa (Planch.) Victorin, Elodea densa (Planch.) Caspary, Elodea densa var. longifolia Bonstedt, Philotria densa (Planch.) Small & St. John

densa => dense, crowded together

Climate: temperate

Habitat: hydrophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: white

Check for Egeria densa at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

• [251] Egeria densa - Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk project (PIER)
• [1617] Egeria densa - Flora of China @ efloras.org

• [17] Rothmaler, W. (1995): Exkursionsflora von Deutschland, Band 3, Gefäßpflanzen: Atlasband. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany.