Aponogeton

Accepted species 61 Documented here 10 Family Aponogetonaceae

Accepted species 61 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Aponogeton distachyos L.f. 248 documented
Aponogeton angustifolius Aiton 13 documented
Aponogeton natans (L.) Engl. & K.Krause 12 documented
Aponogeton crispus Thunb. 11 documented
Aponogeton satarensis Sundararagh., A.R.Kulk. & S.R.Yadav 10 documented
Aponogeton desertorum Zeyh. ex Spreng. 4 documented
Aponogeton junceus Lehm. 4 documented
Aponogeton afroviolaceus Lye 3 documented
Aponogeton bruggenii S.R.Yadav & Govekar 3 documented
Aponogeton natalensis Oliv. 3 documented
Aponogeton cuneatus S.W.L.Jacobs 2 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton stuhlmannii Engl. 2 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton abyssinicus Hochst. ex A.Rich. 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton appendiculatus H.Bruggen 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton azureus H.Bruggen 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton bernerianus (Decne.) Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton bogneri H.Bruggen 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton boivinianus Baill. ex Jum. 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton bullosus H.Bruggen 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton capuronii H.Bruggen 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton cordatus Jum. 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton dassanayakei Manaw. & Yakand. 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton decaryi Jum. ex Humbert 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton dioecus Bosser 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton distachyus L.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton eggersii Bogner & H.Bruggen 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton elongatus F.Muell. ex Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton euryspermus Hellq. & S.W.L.Jacobs 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton fotianus J.Raynal 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton fugax J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton gottlebei Kasselm. & Bogner 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton hexatepalus H.Bruggen 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton jacobsenii H.Bruggen 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton kannangarae M.A.Silva, Deshaprema & Manamperi 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton kimberleyensis Hellq. & S.W.L.Jacobs 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton lakhonensis A.Camus 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton lancesmithii Hellq. & S.W.L.Jacobs 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton longiplumulosus H.Bruggen 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton loriae Martelli 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton madagascariensis (Mirb.) H.Bruggen 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton masoalaensis Bogner 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton nateshii S.R.Yadav 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton nudiflorus Peter 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton proliferus Hellq. & S.W.L.Jacobs 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton queenslandicus H.Bruggen 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton ranunculiflorus Jacot Guill. & Marais 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton rehmannii Oliv. 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton rigidifolius H.Bruggen 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton robinsonii A.Camus 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton schatzianus Bogner & H.Bruggen 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton subconjugatus Schumach. & Thonn. 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton tenuispicatus H.Bruggen 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton tofus S.W.L.Jacobs 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton troupinii J.Raynal 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton ulvaceum Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton undulatus Roxb. 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton vallisnerioides Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton vanbruggenii Hellq. & S.W.L.Jacobs 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton viridis Jum. 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton wolfgangianus S.R.Yadav 0 below the evidence gate
Aponogeton womersleyi H.Bruggen 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.