Question

Hydrilla is an example of------------- water plant

Answer 1

Answer:

Hydrilla (waterthyme) is a genus of aquatic plant, usually treated as containing just one species, Hydrilla verticillata, though some botanists divide it into several species.

Explanation:

Answer 2

Hydrilla is an example of a freshwater plant.

• Hydrilla is a freshwater aquatic plant.
• They are angiosperms and monocotyledons that are they have a single cotyledon.
• They use rhizomes and turions for vegetative reproduction. vegetative reproduction is mainly by fragmentation.
• Due to the presence of aerenchymatous tissue air spaces are present in them to keep them straight in the water.
• Male and female flowers of hydrilla are present on the same plant so they are monoecious.
• They are resistant to salinity.
• There is no transpiration in the hydrilla due to the absence of stomata.