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Monoecious . Submerged , free-floating , rootless , perennial herb ; up to 2 m . Stems pale green to reddish purple , jointed , glabrous , fragile , often dividing into smaller segments . Leaves bright green , whorled 5-14 , dichotomously branched twice , linear , margins usually with many prominent teeth , coarse-textured . Inflorescences in the axils of leaves . Flowers unisexual , sessile , the male and female flowers at separate nodes ; male flowers numerous in a whorl , 1-3 per node ; female flowers fewer in a whorl , 1 per node . Fruit dark green or reddish brown , ovoid or ellipsoid , compressed , smooth , with two basal spines and the persistent style forming an apical spine . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 1) .
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Least Concern (LC) - Global Assessment
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Ceratophyllum demersum var. commune A.Gray
Dichotophyllum demersum (L.) Moench
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Hornwort
Common Hornwort
Rigid Hornwort
Coon's-tail
Coontail
Cornifle Nageante
Not used traditionally.
*Ghazanfar, S. (2003). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.1: Piperaceae – Primulaceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 25). ISBN 90-72619-55-2 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *https://en.wiktionary.org *Gledhill, D. (2008). The Names of Plants. Fourth Edition. Cambridge University Press, UK. ISBN 978-0-521-86645-3 ISSN 978-0-521-68553-5. *Miller, A.G. & Cope, T.A. (1996). Flora of the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra 1: 1-586. Edinburgh university press. ISBN 0748604758. *https://www.illinoiswildflowers.info *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
