Identify this plant please

[vanalisa]

It's the kind of curly one...with the mass of roots. There is some on the top and then a little further down some on the right.
There is none in the bottom third I should have cropped.
Starting to look a little wilty now but I love the look of them and would like to propagate some.
I imagine I would stick the little root bundles in the substrate, but are they meant to be floaters?

 

[CaptainBarnicles]

It's hard to see from the photo, I can't make it out

 

[vanalisa]

Here it is, in a much healthier condition
I absolutely love it

 

[vanalisa]

It's hard to see from the photo, I can't make it out

Here it is, in a much healthier condition
I absolutely love it

 

[Essjay]

It doesn't look like any floater I've ever seen. Looks more like a plant that should be rooted in the substrate.

 

[Razzmatazz]

Looks like a Pogostemon Stellatus

 

[mbsqw1d]

Tricky to tell. A hygrophila perhaps? Maybe h.costata (glush weed)

 

[vanalisa]

Looks like a Pogostemon Stellatus

A Pogo-Stick Star !
Fantastic, thanks

 

[vanalisa]

Tricky to tell. A hygrophila perhaps? Maybe h.costata (glush weed)

Hiya "embee-ess sumthin' somthin'

 

[itiwhetu]

I think it could be a multitude of pygmy sword plants, which have been floating around your tank too long

 

[vanalisa]

It doesn't look like any floater I've ever seen. Looks more like a plant that should be rooted in the substrate.

I did so, but left a few free....

 

[Bruce Leyland-Jones]

I'd go with @itiwhetu 's pygmy sword idea.
It's not a stem plant, as there are no rootlets emerging from the step and it appears to be too busy growing to be a cryptocoryne.
Vallis and Sagittaria would have longer leaves.

Most plants, if not all plants, will survive for quite a while without a substrate, provided they have access to nutrients and light.

 

[vanalisa]

Looks like a Pogostemon

We have a winner...

 

[vanalisa]

I'd go with @itiwhetu 's pygmy sword idea.
It's not a stem plant, as there are no rootlets emerging from the step and it appears to be too busy growing to be a cryptocoryne.
Vallis and Sagittaria would have longer leaves.

Most plants, if not all plants, will survive for quite a while without a substrate, provided they have access to nutrients and light.

"... pygmy sword idea..."