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Salvinia oblongifolia


Higher Taxonomy
Family: SalviniaceaeView Description 
Common Name: FLOATING-FERN or WATER-SPANGLE FAMILY
Habit: 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. Sporangium Case: few to many; sporangia many per case; spores 32 or 64 per sporangium, spheric, in hard mass. 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.
Genera In Family: 1 genus, +- 10 species: +- worldwide, generally tropics. Note: Closest relatives of Azollaceae. In California, probably all are escapes from cultivation, aquaria, reproducing vegetatively (fertile material documented in California only for Salvinia minima).
eFlora Treatment Author: Bruce G. Baldwin
Scientific Editor: Thomas J. Rosatti.
Genus: SalviniaView DescriptionDichotomous Key



Etymology: (A.M. Salvini, Italian botanist, 1633--1729)
Reference: Riefner & Smith 2009 J Bot Res Inst Texas 3:855--866
Salvinia oblongifolia Mart.
WAIF
Leaf: floating blade 25--45 mm, oblong, length generally 2--3 × width, papillae on upper face < 0.1 mm, hairs on papillae with free tips.
Ecology: Sluggish water, among emergent roots, urban riparian woodland; Elevation: < 15 m. Bioregional Distribution: SCo (Bixby Slough, Los Angeles Co.); Distribution Outside California: native to Brazil.
Jepson eFlora Author: Bruce G. Baldwin
Reference: Riefner & Smith 2009 J Bot Res Inst Texas 3:855--866
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Citation for this treatment: Bruce G. Baldwin 2012, Salvinia oblongifolia, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=88830, accessed on April 18, 2024.

Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 18, 2024.

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Geographic subdivisions for Salvinia oblongifolia:
SCo (Bixby Slough, Los Angeles Co.)
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