Salvinia A danso n

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1964, Flora Europaea - Volume 1. Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae, Cambridge University Press : 24

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1. Salvinia A danso n View in CoL 3

Aquatic annuals. Floating leaves covered with papillae, submerged leaves finely divided and root-like. Microsporangia producing 64 microspores; megasporangia with 1 megaspore; prothalli developing inside the floating spores.

The only genus.

Literature: T. K. J. Herzog, Hedwigia 74: 257-84 (1935).

Papillae on the floating leaves 0-2-0- 8 mm; megasporangial sori spherical 1. natans

Papillae on the floating leaves 2-3 mm; megasporangial sori ellipsoidal 2. rotundifolia