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Description: Aquatic perennial plant that is developed submerged in channels of rivers. It displays lobulate and robust stem with abundant long leaves, of (26) 59,5-84 cm. Megaspores of (485) 580-730,74 ĩm, tetrahedral, with tuberous ornamentation. Microsporas of (27,5) 32-42,5 ĩm, elliptical, with spinulose ornamentation. |
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Distribution:
The northwest of the Iberian Peninsula, being
exclusively in Galicia, the high river basin of the Miņo and in some
points of the hydrographic network of Galicia cost, in the province
of A Coruņa.
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Habitat: It is developed in channels of rivers on silicic, sandy substrates,
in oligotrofic well oxygenated waters. It is frequent to find it
with species of Littorelletea and Potametea, like
Apium inundatum, Juncus heterophyllus, Peltata
Nymphoides, Potamogeton crispus, P. berchtoldii
or with Oenanthe crocata, very common in these channels.
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Report about the reasons of the risk: |
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Category IUCN: EN
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Possible solutions: Only the population that is in the high river basin of Miņo has,
theoretically, guaranteed its conservation, to be most of the space
in which it is developed integrated in the Spanish proposal to
comprise of Natura 2000 network.
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Culinary, medicinal and/or medicinal properties:
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