Japan Flora: Stems slender and branched; leaves all submersed, linear, 5-10(-12) cm. long, 2-3 mm. wide, acuminate, entire, sessile, with very faint nerves on both sides, the stipules about 2 cm. long, obtuse, thinly membranous and their margins overlapping; peduncles 2-4 cm. long; spikes rather densely flowered, 1-1.5 cm. long; nutlets broadly elliptic-ovate, about 3.5 mm. long, subentire; style short. May-Oct. Ponds and shallow rivers.
Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu. Korea and Manchuria.