What type of plant are Aponogeton and Phillyrea?
flowering plants
Phillyrea
Phillyrea is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae, native to the Mediterranean region, and naturalized in the Canary Islands and Madeira.
Aponogeton
The Aponogetonaceae (Cape-pondweed family or Aponogeton family) are a family of flowering plants in the order Alismatales.
 The Aponogetonaceae is considered to be allied to the Potamogetonaceae - Najadaceae complex of families.
Aponogeton bernierianus
Aponogeton bernerianus is an aquatic plant from eastern Madagascar.
 It has a 3cm thick tuber or thick and branchy rhizome.
 Leaf blade up to 13 cm petiolate, strap-shaped, highly bullate and undulate, up to 50(-120) cm long and 1.5-6.5(-10) cm wide, dark green coloration. Aponogeton undulatus
Aponogeton undulatus is a species of aquatic plant, sometimes used in aquariums.
 Some taxonomists consider this should be under the name "Aponogeton stachyosporus." Aponogeton abyssinicus
Aponogeton abyssinicus is an amphibious plant found in East Africa, from Ethiopia to Malawi and Zaire.
 Root stock tuberous or oblong, up to 2.5 cm diameter.
 Submersed leaves initially strap-shaped, up to 12 cm long and 6 mm wide, continuing lanceolate to obovate, up to 8.5 cm long, 2.6 cm wide and up to 10 cm long petiolate.
 Blade thin and slightly transparent, with a narrowing or decurrent base and acute or obtuse apex.
 Adults floating, up to 50 cm long petiolate.
 Floating leaf blade linear to ovoid, rarely cordate, up to 16 cm long and 5 cm wide, usually considerably smaller.
 Emersed leaves shaped like the floating leaves, slightiy leathery and shorter petiolate. Aponogeton madagascariensis
Aponogeton madagascariensis is commonly known as Madagascar laceleaf, lattice leaf or lace plant.
 It is an aquatic plant native to Madagascar and is popularly sold for use in aquariums.
 It is endangered in the wild. Aponogeton natans
Aponogeton natans is a species of aquatic plant, in genus "Aponogeton". Aponogeton distachyos
Aponogeton distachyos or "Aponogeton distachyum", also known as waterblommetjie ("lit.
 trans."
 water-floret), Cape-pondweed, water hawthorn, vleikos and Cape pond weed is an aquatic flowering plant. Aponogeton capuronii
Aponogeton capuronii (named after René Paul Raymond Capuron) is an aquatic plant found in southeastern Madagascar. Aponogeton ranunculiflorus
Aponogeton ranunculiflorus, the Sehlabathebe water lily, is a tiny and endangered species of aquatic plant, that belongs to the pondweed family Aponogetonaceae.
 It is protected in the Sehlabathebe National Park in the mountains of Lesotho, where it is very localized, and nearby in the uKhahlamba / Drakensberg Park of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
 Outside these areas it is seriously threatened.
 It is found in sandstone rock pools, up to 7 metres deep, and in permanently wet tarns or sensitive high altitude mires, at altitudes between about 2,600 and 3,200 metres.
 Its spiralled stems allow the flowers to remain at surface level.
 Threats to the species include overgrazing and trampling by cattle, overburning, erosion and subsistence farming.
 Their small (1 cm) corms can survive the drying out of the pools, or being frozen into the muddy bottoms.