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|accepted_name=Najas minor
|accepted_authority=Allioni
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|title=Flora Pedemontana
|place=2: 221. 1785
|year=1785
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Najadaceae;Najas;Najas minor
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Najadaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Najas]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Najas minor]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>profusely branched near apex distally, 11–120 cm × 0.2–1 mm; internodes 0.5–5.8 cm, without prickles abaxially. <b>Leaves</b> usually recurved with age, 0.5–3.4 cm, stiff in age; sheath 1–3 mm wide, apex truncate to auriculate; blade 0.1–1.2 mm wide, margins conspicuously serrulate, teeth 7–15 per side, apex acute, with 1–2 teeth, teeth multicellular; midvein without prickles abaxially. <b>Flowers</b> 1–2 per axil, staminate and pistillate on same plant. <b>Staminate</b> flowers in distal axils, 1.9–2.2 mm; involucre 2-lobed, beaks 0.4–2.1 mm; anther 1-loculed, 0.3 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Ponds, lakes, and slow- moving streams
|elevation=0–500 m
|distribution=Ala.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;La.;Mass.;Mich.;Miss.;Mo.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Eurasia;Africa.
|discussion=<p>Pistillate flowers in distal to proximal axils, 2.2 mm; styles 1–1.2 mm; stigmas 2-lobed. Seeds slightly recurved, purplish, fusiform, 1.5–3 × 0.5–0.7 mm, apex with style situated at center; testa dull, 3 cell layers thick, pitted; aeroleareoles regularly arranged in ca. 15 longitudinal rows, ladderlike, 4-angled, broader than long, end walls not raised. 2n = 24.</p><!--
--><p><i>Najas minor</i>, with its mature leaves recurved and with its aeroleareoles broader than long and arranged in longitudinal rows like the rungs of a ladder, is one of the more distinctive species of <i>Najas</i>. Young sterile individuals resemble <i>N. gracillima</i>, however.</p>
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name=Najas minor
|author=
|authority=Allioni
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Najadaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Ponds, lakes, and slow- moving streams
|elevation=0–500 m
|distribution=Ala.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;La.;Mass.;Mich.;Miss.;Mo.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Eurasia;Africa.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Flora Pedemontana
|publication year=1785
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|genus=Najas
|species=Najas minor
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