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Potamogeton crispus L. Family - Potamogetonaceae Common name - Curled pondweed 🍀(Submersed aquatic plant) 🍁Mostly found in ponds, lakes, rivers and paddy fields. 🍁It has phytoremediation of heavy metals 🍁Leaves are conspicuously toothed along leaf margins, sessile(attached directly to the stem), it is olive green. 🍁The inflorescence is a short spike of flowers emerging above the water surface. 💉 Medicinal uses -  Antioxidant, immunity -regulation, tumour proliferation. Sugimani Marndi Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.  Ambika Prasad Research Foundation Cuttack, Odisha  www.aprf.co.in