Marsilea farinosa Launert

Species

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Characteristics

Stipes slender, usually hispid, erect, c. 20-150 mm long. Pinnae without pellucid streaks. Pedicels usually curved, relatively slender, flexible, usually hispid, erect or ascending, c. 8-15 mm long. Sporocarps densely crowded at base of stipe, bean-shaped, usually horizontal, with a furrow along dorsal, frontal and ventral sides, laterally slightly bulging, flat or rarely concave; lateral ribs 8-11, inconspicuous at maturity; set with multicellular uniseriate hairs of 2 kinds: basally attached, erect ordinary cylindrical hairs, and flattened hairs laterally attached to surface of sporocarp by usually 1-celled funicle-like stalk; raphe present, covering 1/2-2/3 of sporocarp base; inferior tooth absent (or present as shallow hump); superior tooth inconspicuous; sori 8-11.
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Stipes slender, usually hispid, ± 20-150 mm long. Pinnae at least basally densely villous. Sporocarps borne on unbranched pedicels, brownish, oblong, sparsely pubescent with hairs of 2 kinds.
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Distribution

Marsilea farinosa world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17444010-1
WFO ID wfo-0001110762
COL ID 6R63M
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Synonyms

Marsilea farinosa

Lower taxons

Marsilea farinosa subsp. arrecta