Marsilea: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Polypodiopsida
- Order
- Salviniales
- Family
- Marsileaceae
- Genus
- Marsilea
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Marsilea
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Marsilea
Marsilea is a genus of approximately 65 species of aquatic ferns of the family Marsileaceae. The name honours Italian naturalist Luigi Ferdinando Marsili (1656–1730).
These small plants are of unusual appearance and do not resemble common ferns. Common names include water clover and four-leaf clover because of the long-stalked leaves have four clover-like lobes and are either present above water or submerged. It is worth clarifying that these plants are not clovers.
The sporocarps of some Australian species are very drought-resistant, surviving up to 100 years in dry conditions. On wetting, the gelatinous interior of the sporocarp swells, splitting it and releasing a worm-like mass that carries sori, eventually leading to germination of spores and fertilization.
...Marsilea in languages:
- Afrikaans
- Waterklawers
- Chinese
- 蘋屬
- Czech
- marsilka
- Danish
- kløverbregne
- Dutch
- Klaverbladvarens
- English
- Helicopter Ferns
- English
- Waterclover Ferns
- Finnish
- apilasaniaiset
- French
- Marsilée
- Korean
- 네가래속
- Polish
- marsylia
- Russian
- Марсилия
- Swedish
- klöverbräknar
- Thai
- ผักแว่น ฯลฯ
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Marsilea aegyptiaca
- Marsilea aethiopica
- Marsilea ancylopoda
- Marsilea angustifolia
- Marsilea apposita
- Marsilea batardae
- Marsilea berhautii
- Marsilea botryocarpa
- Marsilea burchellii
- Marsilea capensis
- Marsilea coromandelina
- Marsilea costulifera
- Marsilea crenata
- Marsilea crotophora
- Marsilea cryptocarpa
- Marsilea deflexa
- Marsilea distorta
- Marsilea drummondii
- Marsilea ephippiocarpa
- Marsilea exarata
- Marsilea fadeniana
- Marsilea farinosa
- Marsilea fenestrata
- Marsilea gibba
- Marsilea hirsuta
- Marsilea latzii
- Marsilea macrocarpa
- Marsilea macropoda
- Marsilea megalomanica
- Marsilea minuta
- Marsilea mollis
- Marsilea mutica
- Marsilea nashii
- Marsilea nubica
- Marsilea oligospora
- Marsilea owambo
- Marsilea polycarpa
- Marsilea quadrata
- Marsilea quadrifolia
- Marsilea scalaripes
- Marsilea schelpeana
- Marsilea strigosa
- Marsilea subangulata
- Marsilea subterranea
- Marsilea unicornis
- Marsilea vera
- Marsilea vestita
- Marsilea villifolia
- Marsilea villosa































































































































































