English: Tape-grasses; Waterweed; Frog’s bit.
Botany: fresh, marine aquatics; primarily tropical; annual or perennial; creeping monopodial rhizome.
Genera: Apalanthe, Appertiella, Blyxa, Egeria, Elodea, Enhalus, Halophila, Hydrilla. Hydrocharis, Lagarosiphon, Limnobium, Maidenia, Najas, Nechamandra, Ottelia, Stratiotes, Thalassia, Vallisneria.
TaxonomyHydrocharitaceae are placed in
Subphase 5 in the
Plant theory.