Taxon: Marsilea minuta L.

• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

OKª.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• small water-clover   (Source: F Florida ) – English
  

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide Healing Pl India)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Chad; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi; Central African Republic; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Benin; Ghana; Guinea-Bissau; Mali; Nigeria; Senegal
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia
  Southern Africa: South Africa - KwaZulu-Natal
  Western Indian Ocean: Comoros; Madagascar
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India
  Malesia: Malaysia

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
• Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India. 1948–1976. The wealth of India: a dictionary of Indian raw materials and industrial products. Raw materials. Delhi.
• Dyer, R. A. et al., eds. 1963–. Flora of southern Africa.
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. [mentions].
• Johnson, D. M. 1986. Systematics of the New World species of Marsilea (Marsileaceae). Syst. Bot. Monogr. 11:39.
• Wunderlin, R. P. 1998. Guide to the vascular plants of Florida.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Marsilea minuta.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Marsilea minuta.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Marsilea minuta.

Check other web resources for Marsilea minuta L.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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