Potamogeton crispus L.
Family - Potamogetonaceae
Common name - Curled pondweed
🍀(Submersed aquatic plant)
🍁Mostly found in ponds, lakes, rivers and paddy fields.
🍁It has phytoremediation of heavy metals
🍁Leaves are conspicuously toothed along leaf margins, sessile(attached directly to the stem), it is olive green.
🍁The inflorescence is a short spike of flowers emerging above the water surface.
💉 Medicinal uses -
Antioxidant, immunity -regulation, tumour proliferation.
Sugimani Marndi
Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.
Ambika Prasad Research Foundation
Cuttack, Odisha