Appearance
Submersed leaves -30-50 cm long, blades ribbon-shaped, green or darkly red-brown having undulate margins, -20-30 cm long x 1 - 2 - cm wide, trimmed with distinct pellucid lines. Emersed leaves rare, 20 – 50 cm long, petioles longer than the blades. Blades regularly ovate or oval, on the tip blunt, 7.5 – 13 cm long x 2 - 4.5 cm wide, having distinct pellucid lines. Stem upright or deflexed, -30- cm long, proliferous. Inflorescence racemose, rarely branching in the lower whorl, having -4- whorls containing 6 -12 flowers each. Bracts lanceolate, usually shorter than the pedicels, shallowly connate, 1 - 1.5 cm long. Pedicels 1.5 - 2 – 3 cm long. Corolla white, 1 - 1.5 cm in diameter, stamens 18, achenes 1 - 1.5 mm long, having usually 3 glands in oblique row in the upper part of the body.Distinct varieties are sold in the trade which may or may not be this plant. Young growth is often reddish in colour.
Often confused with ''E. maior''.
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