Aponogeton

The Aponogetonaceae (Cape-pondweed family or Aponogeton family) are a family of flowering plants in the order Alismatales. The Aponogetonaceae is considered to be allied to the Potamogetonaceae - Najadaceaecomplex of families.

In recent decades the family has had universal recognition by taxonomists.^[2] The APG system (1998) and APG II system (2003) treat it in the order Alismatales in the clade monocots. The family consists of only one genus,Aponogeton, with 40–50 species of aquatic plants, most of which have been included in a molecular phylogeny by Chen et al. (2015). The name was published in Supplementum Plantarum 32: 214 (1782) and is derived from a geographic location. Some species are used as ornamental plants in aquariums.

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• 1Distribution
• 2Ecology
• 3Economic uses
• 4Cultivation
• 5Rest periods
• 6Selected species
• 7References
• 8External links