Callitriche truncata

{{Short description|Species of plant}}

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| image = Callitriche truncata.jpg

| genus = Callitriche

| species = truncata

| authority = Guss. (1826)

| synonyms =

• Callitriche aquatica subsp. truncata {{small|(Guss.) Bonnier (1921)}}
• Callitriche autumnalis subsp. truncata {{small|(Guss.) Arcang. (1882)}}
• Callitriche hermaphroditica subsp. truncata {{small|(Guss.) Jahand. & Maire (1932)}}
• Callitriche palustris var. truncata {{small|(Guss.) Fiori (1926)}}

| synonyms_ref = {{cite web |title=Callitriche truncata Guss. |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:430056-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=11 September 2024}}

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Callitriche truncata, the short leaved water starwort, is a species of plant in the family Plantaginaceae. It is an aquatic subshrub native to the Mediterranean Basin countries of southern Europe from Spain to Greece and of North Africa from Morocco to Libya, as well as Turkey, Lebanon, and Syria in the eastern Mediterranean, Belgium, the Netherlands, Great Britain, and Ireland in western Europe, eastern European Russia, and the western Himalayas.

They have a self-supporting growth form and simple, broad leaves. Individuals can grow to 10 cm tall.{{Cite web|title=Callitriche truncata Guss. - Encyclopedia of Life|url=https://eol.org/pages/5129387|access-date=2022-02-04|website=eol.org}}{{Cite web|last=Mifsud|first=Stephen|date=2002-08-23|title=Callitriche truncata (Southern Water Starwort) : MaltaWildPlants.com - the online Flora of the Maltese Islands.|url=https://www.maltawildplants.com/CLTR/Callitriche_truncata.php|access-date=2022-02-07|website=www.maltawildplants.com|language=en-us}}