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Databases compiled from the Ministry of Primary Industries list of Tropical fish allowed to be imported into New Zealand.
Freshwater Fish A toH. Freshwater Fish I to Z. Tropical Marine Fish .
Killifish on list Marine Invertebrates. Exotic Reptiles and Amphibians
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Sparganium erectum
Bur-reed, branched bur-reed
- Scientific Name: Sparganium erectum
- Origin: Southwestern temperate Asia, Europe, Morocco, Australia
- Type: Weed
- Plant Life-form Type: Marginal erect/tall
- Taxonomy: L.
- Presence: Not known to be in NZ
- Habitat: Still or slow flowing water, margins fo water bodies.
- Notes: Potentially a major weed in New Zealand
- Propagation: Mainly vegetative spread, including rhizomes. Detached rhizomes and plants
- Features: Emergent, deciduous, perennial with strap like leaves that are triangular in cross section. The monoecious white flowes are compacted racemes, borne on branched flowering stems. Fruit are balls of green spiny capsules.
- Source: TIFBIS
Notifiable organism