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Free-floating aquatic; roots 0.
Stem: horizontal.
Leaf: in groups of 3 along stem, each group of 2 floating leaves, 1 submersed; floating leaves simple, ± sessile or short-petioled, generally ovate to cordate, entire, notched at tip or not, green, hairy, hairs water-repellent on upper face; submersed leaf dissected, root-like, generally petioled, ± white, hairy.
Sporangia: in ± spheric, indehiscent cases of 2 kinds, submersed, on axes in chain-like arrangements or on leaves.
Male sporangium case: few to many; sporangia many per case; spores 32 or 64 per sporangium, spheric, in hard mass.
Female sporangium case: 1–few, basal; sporangia few per case; spore 1 per sporangium, spheric.
1 genus, ± 10 species: ± worldwide, generally tropics. Closest relatives of Azollaceae. In CA, probably all are escapes from cultivation, aquaria, reproducing vegetatively (fertile material documented in CA only for Salvinia minima). —Scientific Editor: Thomas J. Rosatti.

(A.M. Salvini, Italian botanist, 1633–1729) [Riefner & Smith 2009 J Bot Res Inst Texas 3:855–866]

Leaf: floating blade generally 15–25 mm, ± round, length < 1.5 × width, papillae on upper face <= 1 mm, hairs on papillae joined into dark knot at tips.
River channels, backwaters, floodplain ponds; generally < 100 m. South Coast, Sonoran Desert (Colorado River);

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Chart based on elevation range in Manual and elevations and coordinates of CCH records. Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria. Note: About half of the CCH records include both elevation and coordinates.	Map made in collaboration with Scott Loarie. Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria. View all CCH records   CCH collections by month Duplicates counted once; synonyms included. Species do not include records of infraspecific taxa. Blue line denotes Manual flowering time.