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|accepted_name=Limnobium
|accepted_authority=Richard
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Memoires de la Classe des Sciences Mathematiques et Physiques de L'Institut National de France
|place=12(2): 66. 1814
|year=1814
}}
|common_names=American frog-bit
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Hydrocharitaceae;Limnobium
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Hydrocharitaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Limnobium]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek limnobios, living in pools
|volume=Volume 22
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, of fresh waters. <b>Rhizomes</b> absent; stolons floating on or suspended in water, rooted or not, unbranched, short. <b>Leaves</b> basal, emergent or floating, petiolate; blade elliptic to orbiculate, base reniform or cordate, apex obtuse to acuminate; midvein without rows of lacunae along sides, blade uniform in color throughout, abaxially surface without prickles, smooth on emergent leaves or with aerenchymous tissue on floating leaves; intravaginal squamules entire. <b>Inflorescences</b> cymose, sessile or short-pedunculate; spathe not winged. <b>Flowers</b> unisexual, staminate and pistillate on same plants, emersed, pedicellate; petals greenish white to yellowish. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: filaments connate at least ½ their length; anthers elongate; pollen in monads. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: ovary 1-locular, falsely 6–9-locular; styles 3–9, 2-fid nearly to base. <b>Fruits</b> ellipsoid to spheric, smooth to ridged, dehiscing irregularly. <b>Seeds</b> ellipsoid, echinate, covered with blunt cylindric hairs.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p>Species 2 (1 in the flora).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=cook1983a
|text=Cook, C. D. K. , and K. Urmi-König. 1983. A revision of the genus Limnobium including Hydromystria (Hydrocharitaceae). Aquatic Bot. 17: 1--27.
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|id=d1981a
|text=Díaz-Miranda, D., D. Philcox, and P. Denny. 1981. Taxonomic clarification of Limnobium Rich. and Hydromystria G. W. F. Meyer (Hydrocharitaceae). Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 83: 311--323.
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|id=hunziker1981a
|text=Hunziker, A. T. 1981. Hydromystria laevigata (Hydrocharitaceae) en el centro de Argentina. Lorentzia 4: 5--8.
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|id=hunziker1982a
|text=Hunziker, A. T. 1982. Observaciones biológicas y taxonómicas sobre Hydromystria laevigata (Hydrocharitaceae). Taxon 31: 472--477.
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|id=wilder1974a
|text=Wilder, G. J. 1974. Symmetry and development of Limnobium spongia (Hydrocharitaceae). Amer. J. Bot. 61: 624--642.
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|authority=Richard
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|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
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|family=Hydrocharitaceae
|distribution=North America;Central America;South America.
|reference=cook1983a;d1981a;hunziker1981a;hunziker1982a;wilder1974a
|publication title=Memoires de la Classe des Sciences Mathematiques et Physiques de L'Institut National de France
|publication year=1814
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