Biology:Marsilea vestita

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Short description: Species of plant in the family Marsileaceae

Marsilea vestita
Hairy Water Clover (1055719284).jpg
Water form
Marsilea vestita - Marie Selby Botanical Gardens - Sarasota, Florida - DSC01742.jpg
Land form
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Salviniales
Family: Marsileaceae
Genus: Marsilea
Species:
M. vestita
Binomial name
Marsilea vestita
Hook. & Grev.
Synonyms[1]

Marsilea vestita, the hairy water-clover, is a species of largely aquatic fern in the family Marsileaceae.[2] It is native to western and central North America, the Bahamas, Barbuda, and Peru.[1] It can grow into a water form or a land form, depending on local conditions.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Marsilea vestita Hook. & Grev." (in en). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/280441-2. 
  2. "Marsilea vestita". Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. 1 November 2021. https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=mave2. 
  3. Gaudet, John J. (1963). "Marsilea vestita: Conversion of the Water Form to the Land Form by Darkness and by Far-Red Light". Science 140 (3570): 975–976. doi:10.1126/science.140.3570.975. PMID 17836482. Bibcode1963Sci...140..975G. 

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