- Family (Christenhusz et al, 2011) : MARSILEACEAE
- Family (As per The Plant List) : Marsileaceae
- Species : Marsilea minuta
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Marsilea minuta L.
- Collection Nos : KFP 126
- Collector(s) Name : C. J. Saldanha
- Key identification features : Rhizome long, creeping, branched, subterranean, about 30 cm long, upto 2 mm thick, green in aquatic plants, pale or dark brown in terrestrials, overed by whitish, soft, slender hairs sparsely or densely all over; roots borne usually on nodes. Stipes scattered, about 1 m apart, usually green, glabrous or with few hairs as in rhizome. Leaves four, sessile, arranged at the tip of the stipe in clover leaf model, obovate or wedge-shaped; veins distinct above and below, flabellately branched; leaves pale or dark green, glabrous with few hairs; texture thin, soft herbaceous. Sporocarps borne at the nodes in clusters alternately, five per cluster; sporocarps adnate to the peduncle laterally and perpendicularly, more or less bean shaped, black or dark brown, very hard, densely hairy when young; microsporangia and megasporangia enclosed in same sporocarp and covered by gelatinous layer; microspores yellowish-brown, globose; megaspores ovate.
- Habit : Herb-Aquatic
- Native : Tropical Asia; Brazil; Caribbean Islands
- Comments : Very common in ponds, paddy fields and marshy places and damp soil.
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Collection Locality : Bangalore
- Distribution Locality : Bangalore; Dakshina Kannada; Hassan; Mysore; Tumkur
- Floras referred : Fraser-Jenkins, Taxonomic revision of Indian Subcontinental Pteridophytes 2008; Rajagopal & Bhat, Pteridophytic flora of Karnataka State- 1998; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District
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