Family: Marsileaceae
Marsilea exarata
Citation:
A. Braun, Monatsber. K. Wiss. Berl. 732 (1870).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Swayback nardoo.
Description:
Rhizome branched, becoming glabrous; fronds becoming glabrescent, obovate or obliquely obovate, 6-10 mm long, 6-8 mm broad, sometimes unequally arranged and more or less paired; sporocarps solitary, 3.5-4 mm long, faintly or distinctly ribbed, concave or flat on the upper side, apex pointed; teeth 2, the upper one broadly triangular the lower one narrowly triangular, recurved.
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Image source: fig. 46f in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Distribution:
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S.Aust.: NW, LE, GT. W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: No flowering time is available |
SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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