Potamogeton tepperi is a water herb, belonging to the Potamogetonaceae family in the order Alismatales.

[4] The species was first described in 1887 by the British botanist, Arthur Bennett,[1][2] from a specimen collected by Frederick Manson Bailey from a pool 500 miles north of Brisbane, and another collected from a river in South Australia by Johann Gottlieb Otto Tepper (who is honoured in the species epithet).

[2] It is an aquatic, rhizomatous perennial herb which has both submerged and floating leaves.

The Inflorescence is a terminal spike up to 5 cm long which emerges above the water.

The fruit is reddish, brownish or green and keeled with a prominent beak.