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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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Elatine gratioloides
- Scientific Name: Elatine gratioloides
- Origin: New Zealand
- Type: Native
- Plant Life-form Type: short
- Taxonomy: Cunn
- Presence: North, South and Stewart Islands
- Habitat: Shallow water in lakes and river margins
- Temperature (°C): up to 28
- pH range: 6.5 - 7.2
- Hardness (ppm): Hardy
- Height: 200mm
- Difficulty: Easy
- Notes: Shallow margins of large lakes throughout NZ a creeping plant that forms a low turf that may grow up to 20cm tall.
- Propagation: Stem cuttings and seed
- Features: Creeping perennial, low growing herb, with variable form/size in different habitats. Stems are thick/fleshy, root at the nodes and are usually 1 to 2 cm long if emergent but may grow to 20 cm long when submerged in static water. Leaves are opposite, 2 to 16 mm long, 5 mm wide, ovate to elliptic in shape, bright green and fleshy with short petioles. Flowers have 3 petals and sepal, are inconspicuous, solitary, sessile occuring alternately up the stem in the axils of leaves.
- Source: TIFBIS