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Potamogeton crispus L. Family - Potamogetonaceae Common name - Curled pondweed

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 

www.aprf.co.in



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