Marsilea oligospora |
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Nelson's pepperwort, Pacific clover-fern water-clover, Pacific water-clover |
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Habit | Plants forming dense clones. |
Roots | arising at nodes. |
Petioles | 3.1–5.7 cm, sparsely pubescent. |
Pinnae | 6–15 × 5–14 mm, pilose. |
Sori | 14–20. |
Sporocarp(s) | stalks erect, unbranched, attached at base of petiole, sometimes bent near apex, 5–10 mm. |
Marsilea oligospora |
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Phenology | Sporocarps produced summer–fall (Jun–Oct). |
Habitat | Around ponds and marshes, in wet depressions in sagebrush and less commonly on river margins |
Elevation | 700–2400 m (2300–7900 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY
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Discussion | Marsilea oligospora recently has been resegregated from M. vestita (D. M. Johnson 1986), from which it differs consistently in its nodding sporocarps that lack a pronounced distal tooth and its pilose leaves and stems. Where their ranges overlap, M. oligospora also has longer sporocarp stalks than does M. vestita. Plants of this species were recently grown from spores 100 years old (D. M. Johnson 1985). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 2. |
Parent taxa | Marsileaceae > Marsilea |
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Name authority | Goodding: Bot. Gaz. 33: 66. (1902) |
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