Lemna minor L.

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Araceae

  • Scientific Name

    Lemna minor L.

  • Description

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    Species Description - Thallus obovate or subcircular, 1.5-5 mm. long, thiekish, rarely reddish or purplish tinged, short-stalked when young, provided throughout with etomata, nearly symmetrical, obscurely 3-nerved, very rarely 4-5-nerved. Eootcap obtuse or subtruneate; fruit symmetrical, subturbinate; seed with a prominent protruding hilum, deeply and unequally 12-15-ribbed; ovule 1.

  • Distribution

    Water-holes and sink-holes, near The Bight, Cat Island : North temperate and subtropical zones, but not known to us elsewhere in the West Indies. Duck-weed.

    Cat Island Bahamas South America| West Indies|