Characteristics
Monocots
Spirodela polyrhiza (L.)Schleiden
COMMON DUCKWEED
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The Linnaean protologue of the basionym spelled the epithet as "polyrhiza" which is retained here, although Schleiden then changed the epithet to "polyrrhiza" when making the combination in Spirodela, a spelling used by some authors.
Native
OBL (NWPL)
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Citation
SPIRODELA POLYRHIZA (Linnaeus) Schleiden, Linnaea 13: 392. 1839.
Lemna polyrhiza Linnaeus 1753.
ITALY: Without data (lectotype: Micheli, Nov. Gen. Sp. t. 11(Lenticularia fig. 1). 1729). Lectotypified by Iamonico & Iberite, Taxon 63: 1314-1315. 2014.
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