Elatine gussonei

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Elatine gussonei

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Hello All!

Mr. Stephen Mifsud invited me to the forums. I had emailed him recently about hopefully obtaining some Elatine gussonei seeds to try out in my planted aquarium garden. I read his article in the Aquatic Gardeners Association and became intrigued with this plant because it looks so much like a popular plant that we have here called Glossostigma elatinoides, hence the species name. ;)

I am the current president of the Greater Washington Aquatic Plant Association, which can be found here: www.gwapa.org. I am curious if any of you can help me out with my search to obtain some of this interesting plant to introduce to the hobby here in the United States. Please rest assured that we are responsible hobbiests and do not release exotic species into the wild. Thanks for any help you can give me in my search for this plant.

Also, if there are any other interesting aquatic plants you all have discovered please share about them.
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Hello,

May I correct you a little... Mr Stephen Mifsud, the administrator is not the Mr Stephan Mifsud who wrote the article on Aquatic Gardners. The latter I know him personally and he is an enthusiast of aquatic plants being local or alien.

Regarding the elatine gussonei... Here I am attaching a photo of elatine gussonei taken by me on a trip with Mr. Mifsud. In the photo one can be fooled that it is almost identical to the Australian glossostigma elatinodes... However it is much smaller. Our speciecs is endemic to Malta and Lampedusa.

You may try to contact Mr. Stephan Mifsud yourself if you want more scientific knowledge of this plant.

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Welcome to the forum Elatine.

I think it would be appropriate if you supply a contact address of Stephen Mifsud to our friend from Australia. Maybe by Private Message if Stephan Mifsud would not like his email to be written here.

It would be nice if you ask your friend Stephan about the forum to join here so that we also add another flagship regarding aquatic plants.
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Definitely I did.
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