Lemna turionifera |
Lemna valdiviana |
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lenticulare turionifère, red duckweed, turion duckweed |
duckweed, pale duckweed, Valdivia duckweed, Valdivia's duckweed |
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Roots | shorter than 15 cm, tip mostly rounded; sheath not winged. |
to 1.5 cm, tip rounded to pointed; sheath not winged. |
Flowers | ovaries 1-ovulate, utricular scale with narrow opening at apex. |
ovaries 1-ovulate, utricular scale open on 1 side. |
Fruits | 0.5–0.6 mm, not winged. |
1–1.35 mm, not winged. |
Seeds | with 30–60 indistinct ribs, staying within fruit wall after ripening. |
with 15–29 distinct ribs. |
Stipes | white, small, often decaying. |
white, small, often decaying. |
Fronds | floating, 1 or 2–few, coherent in groups, obovate, scarcely gibbous, flat, 1–4 mm, 1–1.5 times as long as wide, margins entire; veins 3, greatest distance between lateral veins near or distal to above middle; papillae distinct on midline of upper surface (apical papilla scarcely larger than others); lower surface often red (more intensely so than on upper), coloring beginning at attachment point of root, upper surface (especially near apex) sometimes with red spots; air spaces to 0.3 mm; turions sometimes present, rootless, olive to brown, 0.8–1.6 mm diam., sinking to bottom. |
floating or (rarely) submersed, 1 or 2–few, coherent in groups, ovate to lanceolate, flat, thin, 1–5 mm, 1.3–3 times as long as wide, margins entire; veins 1, mostly prominent, longer than extension of air spaces, or running through at least 3/4 of distance between node and apex; with or without small papillae along midline of upper surface; anthocyanin absent; largest air spaces much shorter than 0.3 mm; turions absent. |
2n | = 40, 42 (G), 50, 80. |
= 40, 42. |
Lemna turionifera |
Lemna valdiviana |
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Phenology | Flowering (occasional) summer. | Flowering (very rare) spring–fall. |
Habitat | Mesotrophic to –eutrophic, quiet waters, in continental, temperate regions | Mesotrophic, quiet waters in temperate to tropical regions |
Elevation | 0–3700 m (0–12100 ft) | 0–2000 m (0–6600 ft) |
Distribution |
AK; AL; AZ; CA; CO; CT; IA; ID; IL; IN; KS; MA; MI; MN; MO; MT; ND; NE; NJ; NM; NV; NY; OH; OK; OR; PA; RI; SD; TX; UT; VT; WA; WI; WV; WY; AB; BC; MB; NB; NL; NS; NT; ON; PE; QC; SK; YT; SPM; Mexico (Baja California); Eurasia
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AL; AR; AZ; CA; CT; DC; FL; GA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; MI; MO; MS; MT; NC; NE; NH; NJ; NM; NY; OH; OK; PA; RI; SC; TN; TX; VA; WV; WY; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies (Bermuda)
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Discussion | I know of no specimens of Lemna turionifera from Maine, New HampshireSt. Pierre and Miquelon, or from New Jersey, but the species is to be expected there.. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
I know of no specimens of Lemna valdiviana from Delaware, but the species is to be expected there. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 22, p. 148. | FNA vol. 22, p. 149. |
Parent taxa | Lemnaceae > Lemna | Lemnaceae > Lemna |
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Synonyms | L. cyclostasa, L. torreyi | |
Name authority | Landolt: Aquatic Botany 1: 355, fig. 4g–h. (1975) | Philippi: Linnaea 33:239. (1864) |
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