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Water milfoil
Myriophyllum variifolium is a perennial, aquatic herb, native here in the east of Australia. Stems are 5 mm in diameter and each frond can grow to around 40 cm in height.
The plant is monoecious with male and female flowers on the same shoot - seen here are the tiny female flowers. It has a sprawling habit with bright green needle like foliage.
''Myriophyllum variifolium'' is a species of water milfoil native to eastern Australia where it grows in aquatic habitat such as ponds and streams.
Joseph Dalton Hooker described the species in 1840, from material collected in the Lachlan River, as well as Tasmania. The Tasmanian material resembled the description more closely, and the New South Wales material has been separated as a different species, hence the original Tasmanian material was made the neolectotype.
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