Common name: Common Wolffia
Family: Araceae
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Country of Origin: N & S America
Description: Minute floating herb, among the smallest of flowering plants; Plant bodies globose, to 1/16 inch long, not dotted, with 3 papillae on upper surface, floating just beneath water surface.
North and South America
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Source: Unknown
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Classification:
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Liliopsida
- SubClass: monocots
- Order: Alismatales
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- Family: Araceae
- SubFamily: Lemnoideae
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References:
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Saturday, January 28, 2017.
- WCSP (2016). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Saturday, January 28, 2017.
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