Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Alismatales R.Br. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Potamogetonaceae Bercht. & J.Presl
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Lepilaena J.Drumm. ex Harv. (1855)
 Description

Dioec. Fls solitary, shortly pedicellate. ♂ with per. of 3 minute, membr. segs; stamen single or 3 connate by their connectives; pollen spherical. ♀ with per. of 3 membr. segs about as long as ovary plus style; carpels us. 3, shortly stipitate; ovary oval; style short; stigma cylindric to funnelform. Fr. ± cylindric. Rhizome threadlike, rooting at nodes and giving off slender lfy branches. Lvs alt.; internodes, except near infl., at least as long as sheathing base; lf-base pale, broader than lamina, with short, colourless auricles.

[From:  Moore and Edgar (1970) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 2.]

 Biostatus
Number of species in New Zealand within Lepilaena J.Drumm. ex Harv.
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Non-endemic)1
Total1
 Bibliography
Ito, Y.; Tanaka, N.; García-Murillo, P.; Muasya, A.M. 2016: A new delimitation of the Afro-Eurasian plant genus Althenia to include its Australasian relative, Lepilaena (Potamogetonaceae)–evidence from DNA and morphological data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 98: 261–270.
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.