Taxon: Landoltia punctata (G. Mey.) Les & D. J. Crawford

• 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:

TXª.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Economic importance:

• Animal food: fodder   (fide E. Landolt, pers. comm.)
  
• Weed   (fide Econ Pl Aust, as Spirodela punctata)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Spain - Canary Islands [Tenerife]
  Northern Africa: Egypt
  South Tropical Africa: Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: South Africa - Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar; Mauritius
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Israel
  China: China - Fujian, Henan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India
  North Indian Ocean: Maldives
  Indo-China: Thailand
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• PACIFIC
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji; New Caledonia; Vanuatu
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Northern South America: Guyana; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil - Parana, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo
  Western South America: Colombia

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
• Govaerts, R. & D. G. Frodin. 2002. World checklist and bibliography of Araceae (and Acoraceae).
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Landolt, E. 1996. pers. comm. [re. common names].
• Les, D. H. & D. J. Crawford. 1999. Landoltia (Lemnaceae), a new genus of duckweeds. Novon 9:530–533.
• Les, D. H. et al. 2002. Phylogeny and systematics of Lemnaceae, the duckweed family. Syst. Bot. 27:221–240.
• Rial, B. A. & J. V. Pott. 1999. Landoltia punctata (G. Mey.) Les et D. J. Crawford (Lemnaceae) en Venezuela. Mem. Soc. Ci. Nat. La Salle 59:25–28.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Landoltia punctata.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Landoltia punctata.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Landoltia punctata.

Synonyms:

• (=) Lemna oligorrhiza Kurz
  
• (≡) Lemna punctata G. Mey. (basionym)
  
• (=) Spirodela oligorrhiza (Kurz) Hegelm.
  
• (≡) Spirodela punctata (G. Mey.) C. H. Thomps.
  

Check other web resources for Landoltia punctata (G. Mey.) Les & D. J. Crawford:

• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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