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| | POTAMOGETONACEAE B (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Members of the Potamogetonaceae have been variously combined with members of the Zosteraceae, Cymodoceaceae, and Zannichelliaceae, Najadaceae to comprise a family called either the Zosteraceae, Najadaceae, or Potamogetonaceae. |
 | | The Potamogetonaceae, as here interpreted, are separated from these other families by their perfect flowers, lack of spathe-like bract, and in some species, the presence of turions. |
 | | Regardless of this phenotypic plasticity, collections of the Potamogetonaceae in particular and aquatic vascular plants in general are often taken regardless of the presence of reproductive structures. |
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