Marsileaceae
Alternative names: Not Applicable
Description:
Small aquatic or subaquatic plants; rhizome creeping; fronds simple and grass-like or with 4 or rarely 2 opposite leaflets borne on a long stipe; sporocarps sessile or pedunculate, oblong to globose, containing numerous megasporangia and microsporangia in the same sporocarp; sporangia extruded in a gelatinous mucilage on rupturing of the sporocarp.
Distribution:
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3 genera, including the monotypic Regnellidium in Brazil.
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Biology:
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