Aponogeton bruggenii

IUCN Red List Status: Vulnerable (VU)
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Aponogeton bruggenii S.R.Yadav & Govekar, Rheedea 4: 34 1994. ;
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W. India as per WCSP;
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Beautiful photograph … One from Satara-Kas is referred as “Y-tura”, this one jokingly i use to refer as “I” tura.

I too would go with I-tura !! Y-tura was perhaps coined because the pair of inflorescence and the stem alludes to the English letter Y. On the same lines, in this case, it is very well I-tura !!

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commonly known as: Bruggen’s pondweed • Marathi: गुलाबी पाणतुरा gulabi pantura

botanical names: Aponogeton bruggenii S.R.Yadav & Govekar … synonyms: no synonym known … POWO

• bruggenii, commemorative epithet, named for Heinrich (Harry) Wilhelm Eduard van Bruggen (December 6, 1927 in Amsterdam – February 8, 2010 in Amersfoort) was a Dutch amateur botanist, for his immense contribution to study of Aponogeton, the sole genus of family Aponogetonaceae … Wikipedia. All Aponogeton spp. are aquatic plants, thus the generic name pondweed given to all its species.

• an apt name given by Shrikant Ingalhalikar, the author of Further Flowers of Sahyadri … गुलाबी gulabi = pink; पाण pan = water (habitat); तुरा tura = spike (inflorescence)

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