Hydrophytes, s short descriptiion

1. AQUATIC
MACROPHYTES
Ena Kandel
L5
Environmental Science

2. WHAT is AQUATIC
MACROPHYTES?
– Aquatic macrophytes are aquatic photosynthetic organisms, large enough to see
with the naked eye.
– They actively grow permanently or periodically submerged below, floating on,
or growing up through the water surface.
– Some examples are: Water Lilly, duckweed, lotus, common reed etc.

3. Types
• Free Floating
• Floating Leaves
• Emergent
• Submerged
• Marginal

4. Free Floating
– The water plant that floats on the surface of a pond with its roots hanging in the
water.
– Its example are:

5. DUCK WEED
– Common Name – Lesser Duckweed
– Scientific Name – Lemnoideae

6. Water chesnut
– Common Name: Water chesnut
– Scientific Name: Eleocharis dulcis

7. Floating Leaves
– The water plant whose roots are attached to the ground and leaves float in the
water is called floating leaves
– It’s example are:

8. Water cabbage
– Common name: Water lettuce, nile cabbage or shelflower
– Scientific name: Pistia stratiotes

9. Lotus
– Common Name: Lotus
– Scientific Name : Nelumbo nucifera

10. Emergent
– Emergent plants are the plants which are rooted in the lake bottom, but their
leaves and stems extend out of the water.
– It’s example are:

11. Common Reed
– Common Name: Common Reed
– Scientific Name: Phragmites

12. Cattail
– Common Name: Bulrush, Cattail
– Scientific Name: Typha

13. Submerged
– Submerged plants are rooted plants are the plants with most of their vegetative
mass below the water surface, although small portions may stick above the
water.
– Its example are:

14. Eel Grass
– Common Name: Eel grass or Tape grass or Vallis
– Scientific Name: Vallisneria

15. Pondweed
– Common Name: Curly Leaf
– Scientific Name: Potamogeton crispus

16. Marginal
– The plants which grow around the margins where the water is shallow.
– It’s example are:

17. Mangrove
– Common Name: Mangrove
– Scientific Name: Rhizophora mangle

18. Umbrella Palm
– Common Name: Umbrella sedge or umbrella palm
– Scientific Name: Cyperus alternifolius

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