Sparganium Linnaeus 1753 (bur-reed)

Angiospermae - Typhales - Commelinidae

Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1753. Species Plantarum 1-1200

Parent taxon: Sparganiaceae according to F. H. Knowlton 1919

See also Chauhan 1991, Hickey 1977, Knowlton 1899, Lakhanpal et al. 1976, Liu et al. 1996 and Mabberley 2000

Sister taxa: Sparganilithes, Sparganiocarpus

Subtaxa: Sparganium antiquum Sparganium parvum Sparganium stygium

View classification

Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (18 collections), India (2), the United Kingdom (3), United States (1: Washington)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (2)

• Pliocene of Germany (9), the Russian Federation (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of France (1)

• Miocene of Canada (1: Northwest Territories), Denmark (2), Germany (41), Poland (1), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (16), Switzerland (3), United States (1: Nevada)

• Oligocene of the Czech Republic (1), Germany (13), the Russian Federation (12)

• Eocene of China (1), United States (5: North Dakota, Wyoming)

• Clarkforkian of United States (1: North Dakota)

• Paleocene to Eocene of Australia (1)

• Paleocene of United States (5: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota)

• Paleogene of India (1)

• Tertiary of the Russian Federation (1)

• Cretaceous of Canada (3: British Columbia), China (1), United States (3: Wyoming)

Total: 151 collections including 203 occurrences

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.