Talk:Aquatic plant

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I edited the 'All Aquatic Plants' part to be grammatically correct.--MysticEndevor 20:33, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Plant-related material dumped on Aquatic

This stuff belongs in this article, not Aquatic, if it belongs anywhere. It looks like someone's class notes.

  • Endangered aquatic species survive by depending on wetlands.
  • Aquatic plants are distributed around the world
  • There are three types of leaves in aquatic plants: submersed leaves, floating leaves, and emersed leaves.
  • Submersed leaves are thin and narrow and often highly dissected and are very flexible. They often receive low levels of sunlight because the light energy diminishes while passing though a water column.
  • Floating leaves are broader leaves that are firm or leathery but flexible enough to resist tearing by wave action
  • Emersed leaves such as aerial leaves are similar to typical leaves of terrestrial plants living nearby
  • Some aquatic species have high ratios of surface to volume for having 1 to 2 cell layer construction
  • Examples of highly dissected submersed leaves are: parrots feather and European milfoil, pondweed, thread-leaved water-nymph and rice-field water nymph, hornwort
  • Examples of slightly wider but very thin submersed leaves: elodea, mare's tail
  • Examples of thread-like undivided leaves: horned-pondweed, ditch-grass, quillwort, pilularia americana
  • Floating leaves are broader, without major lobing and remain flat on the water, taking advantage of full sun. The upper leaf surface tends to have a very prominent cuticle therefore permitting water to roll off and not interfering with photosynthesis or growth of epiphytic algae. They have well-developed air chambers (lacunae) which provides buoyancy and have hard cells (sclereids) in the mesophyll and provide toughness for the leaf and prevents the layer from collapsing.
  • Examples of floating leaves are: water lily, yellow pong-lily, cape-pondweed, pondweed, Victorian water lily, water-chestnut, floating heart, water-shield, frog-bit.
  • Emersed leaves are like typical leaves of herbaceous angiosperms that inhabit full-sun environments. They are from the water and have a waxy cuticle. Many are amphistomatic and have well-developed leaf mesophyll in order to take advantage of the abundant light.
  • Examples of Emersed leaves: cattails, wetland irises, buttercups, grass species, giant reed, sacred lotus, species of y yellow pond-lily, skunk cabbage, arrow leaf, knotweed, lizard's tail, yerba mansa, bur-reed, pickerelweed, thalia geniculata.
  • For aquatic plants, the are rooted in the mud of muck (amphibious plant) however floating plants are not attached to the mud or bottom

J. Spencer 01:18, 24 March 2007 (UTC)