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| American frogbit | |
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| Limnobium laevigatum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Alismatales |
| Family: | Hydrocharitaceae |
| Subfamily: | Hydrocharitoideae |
| Genus: | Limnobium Rich. 1814 not Schimp. 1853 (syn of Hygrohypnum in Amblystegiaceae, a bryophyte) |
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Limnobium, common names spongeplant[2] and American frogbit,[3] is a group of aquatic plants in the Hydrocharitaceae described as a genus in 1814.[4][5] It is widespread in freshwater environments in Latin America, the West Indies, and the United States.[1][6][7][8][3]
- ^ a b "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew". apps.kew.org. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
- ^ NRCS. "Limnobium". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 21 June 2015.
- ^ a b "Limnobium spongia in Flora of North America @ efloras.org". www.efloras.org. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
- ^ Richard, Louis Claude Marie. 1814. Mémoires de la Classe des Sciences Mathématiques et Physiques de L'Institut National de France 12(2): 66
- ^ "Tropicos | Name - Limnobium Rich". www.tropicos.org. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
- ^ Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1958. Hydrocharitaceae. In Standley, P.C. & Steyermark, J.A. (Eds), Flora of Guatemala - Part I. Fieldiana, Botany 24(1): 84–86.
- ^ Cook, C. D. K. , and K. Urmi-König. 1983. A revision of the genus Limnobium including Hydromystria (Hydrocharitaceae). Aquatic Botany 17: 1--27.
- ^ Hunziker, A. T. 1981. Hydromystria laevigata (Hydrocharitaceae) en el centro de Argentina. Lorentzia 4: 5--8.