Accession Data:
Salvinia auriculata Aubl.
- Common Name: Eared Watermoss
- Family: Salviniaceae Reichb.
- Country of Origin: Tropical America
- Description: Plants to 2 3/4 inches long; floating leaves nearly orbicular, to 5/8 inches long and 3/4 inches wide, upper surface covered with rows of papillae. each with a tuft of 4 hairs, the hairs separate from one another, lower surface with brown hairs. Tropical America; introduced locally in eastern US.
Difficult to distinguish from other species, form often variable depending upon plant density.
Accession Data:
- Accession # 199400181
- Source: CEM ex C Armstrong - UVM
- Accession Date: 12-02-1994
- Bench: 3307 - NEOB: Bromeliad Island
- Currently: active - healthy
- Qty: 1 confirmed on 03-03-2025
- Restrictions:
- Federally Listed Noxious Weed - Plants are not to leave Greenhouse!
- Potentially Invasive Plant - Plants are not to leave Greenhouse!
- Federally Listed Noxious Weed - Plants are not to leave Greenhouse!
Classification:
- Division: Ferns
- Class: Polypodiopsida
- SubClass: Polypodiidae
- Order: Salviniales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Salviniaceae
- SubFamily:
- Tribe:
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References (internal):
- Ferns & Fern Allies
- Aquatic Plants
- Acropleustophyte
- EEB 3271 - Systematic Botany
- EEB 3203 - Developmental Plant Morphology
- EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Mexico Northeast / Mexico Gulf / Mexico Southwest / Mexico Southeast / Belize / Costa Rica / El Salvador / Guatemala / Honduras / Nicaragua / Panama / Dominican Republic / Haiti / Trinidad-Tobago / French Guiana / Guyana / Suriname / Venezuela / Bolivia / Colombia / Ecuador / Peru / Brazil West-Central / Brazil Northeast / Brazil Southeast / Brazil North / Brazil South / Chile Central / Chile North / Chile South / Paraguay / Uruguay
References (external):
- Hortus Third, LH Bailey Hortorium, 1976.
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Tuesday, May 09, 2017.
- Salvinia auriculata at ARS-GRIN. Last accessed on Tuesday, May 09, 2017.
- Ferns Afloat at In Defense of Plants. Last accessed on Thursday, February 01, 2018.
data regenerated on Mon, 03 Mar 2025 11:21:01 -0500 [bcm v4.0]
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