Callitriche obtusangula Le Gall

Spice Female flower Male flower

Family: CALLITRICHACEAE

Genus: Callitriche

Province distribution: Girona. Tarragona. València.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Cosmopolitan and subcosmopolitan

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Hydrophyte.

Habitats: Litoral marshes and riparian.

Characteristics: Freshwaters, shallow and with a slow current. An herb with aquatic stems with floating apical rosettes, of which each has 15-20 rhomboidal and acute rosettes. Can be distinguished from other Callitriche by having fruit longer than ample, with rounded mericarps on the dorsal and lacking a wing.