Characteristics
Pteridophytes
Marsilea ancylopoda A.Braun
TROPICAL WATERCLOVER
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Based on the analysis of Whitten et al. (2012), Florida material has so far been found to molecularly distinct (4 base-pair insertion in plastid trnL-F intergenic spacer). The name Marsilea oligospora was previously misapplied to this species in Florida.
Native
Threatened-State
OBL (NWPL)
Classification
Citation
MARSILEA ANCYLOPODA A.Braun, Monatsber. Königl. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1863: 434. 1864.
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ECUADOR: Guayas: Environs of Quayaquil, 1847, James 394 (holotype: G; isotypes: BM, G, K).