Azolla is a genus of seven species of aquatic ferns in the family Salviniaceae. They are extremely reduced in form and specialized, looking nothing like ...
Mosquito ferns
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Azolla is a genus of seven species of aquatic ferns in the family Salviniaceae. They are extremely reduced in form and specialized, looking nothing like other typical ferns but more resembling duckweed or some mosses. Azolla filiculoides is one of... Wikipedia
Scientific name: Azolla
Class: Polypodiopsida
Family: Salviniaceae
Order: Salviniales
Division: Polypodiophyta
Genus: Azolla; Lam.
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Oct 7, 2024 · Azolla (about 6 species) and Salvinia (about 10 species), of floating aquatics, distributed nearly worldwide but most diverse in the tropics.
Nov 5, 2020 · Plants aquatic, floating on placid water, occasionally stranded, subsisting on mud; plants heterosporous (producing 2 kinds of spores), ...
The Azollaceae comprises a single genus of small, widely distributed floating aquatics (Jermy, 1993). While over 40 species have been described from the ...
Genus: Azolla — mosquito fern. These small, aquatic ferns float on the surface of the water or are sometimes found stranded on mud.
The genus Azolla is defined as a heterosporous leptosporangiate fern from aquatic and semi-aquatic habitats. It is assigned to the monogeneric Family Azollaceae ...
Idaho Species ; Azolla caroliniana, Eastern Mosquito-fern, Species ; Azolla filiculoides, Large Mosquito-fern, Species ; Azolla mexicana, Mexican Mosquito-fern ...
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Otherwise known as Fairy moss , Duckweed fern , Mosquito fern. Duckweed is the ultimate floating plant. These are a different species, 'Azolla filiculoides ...
A photographic guide to plants of Humboldt Bay dunes and wetlands. Compiled by Gordon Leppig and Andrea Pickart. Release 2.0 April 2018.
Description. Leaves minute, 1 -2 mm long, overlapping in 2 ranks, upper lobe green, brown green or reddish, lower lobe translucent brown.