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Glossostigma cleistanthum

Glossostigma cleistanthum 5448302

https://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/factsheet.aspx?SpeciesID=257 http://www.dem.ri.gov/programs/benviron/water/quality/surfwq/pdfs/glocle.pdf

Glossostigma cleistanthum 5448336

Glossostigma cleistanthum 5448339

Common name is Mudmat

Aquatic plant native to Australia, New Zealand, India and East Africa.

Earliest record in North America is 1992 in Hamburg Cove, CT. Found in New Jersey, eastern PA, RI.

Occurs in waters with high clarity and low pH, alkalinity, conductivity, and phosphorous.

Can produce cleistogamous and chasmogamous flowers in response to ecological conditions.

Ephemeral or short lived perennial

• cleistogamous => automatic self-pollination of certain plants that can propagate by using non-opening, self-pollinating flowers.
• chasmogamous => open petals encircling exposed reproductive parts, rely on cross-pollination by biotic or abiotic agents

Kingdom - Plantae

Subkingdom - Viridiplantae

Infrakingdom - Streptophyta

Superdivision - Embryophyta

Divison - Tracheophyta

Subdivision - Spermatophytina

Class - Magnoliopsida

Superorder - Asteranae

Order - Lamiales

Family - Phyrymaceae

Genus - Glossostigma

Species - Glossostigma cleistanthum W.R. Barker

Invasive Species Index of New York

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Flora_of_New_York/Invasive_species_index

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Flora_of_New_York/Lamiales_3

NCBI

Taxonomy ID: 318104 (for references in articles please use NCBI:txid318104)