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Marsileaceae Habit: Plant generally aquatic or in perennially wet areas, generally rooted in mud; rhizome creeping, slender, branched. Leaf: floating, emergent, or out of water, +- alike; blade 1-palmate or 0, << stipe; veins not or repeatedly forked, free or netted. Sporangia: in stalked, spheric or +- flat-ovoid, hard cases of 1 kind, attached near stipe base. Spores: large megaspores (female) and small microspores (male), in separate sporangia. Genera In Family: 3 genera, +- 70 species: especially temperate. Jepson eFlora Author: Andy Murdock, Alan R. Smith & Thomas Lemieux Scientific Editor: Alan R. Smith, Bruce G. Baldwin. Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Key to Marsileaceae Previous taxon: Equisetum telmateia subsp. braunii Next taxon: Marsilea |