Pteridophyta: Salviniales
Marsileaceae
- Water-clovers and pillworts
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Pteridophyta Flora Zambesiaca
Description of the family
Small aquatic or semi-aquatic ferns, rooting in mud, with widely creeping, dichotomously branched rhizomes of indefinite growth. Fronds numerous, approximate to widely spaced, 1-pinnate with 2 pinna pairs in a clover-shaped cluster at the apex of a long, slender, cylindrical petiole or lamina lacking; veins dichotomously branched, anastomosing. Sporangia in closed sporocarps; sporocarps inserted on short stalks (pedicles)on the stipe (usually at the base), heterosporous. Worldwide: 3 genera and c. 75 species worldwide, in warm-temperate and (sub)tropical regions. Botswana: 1 genus and 13 taxa. |
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M.
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Flora of Botswana: Family page: Marsileaceae. https://www.botswanaflora.com/speciesdata/family.php?family_id=133, retrieved 20 March 2023
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