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|accepted_name=Salviniaceae
|accepted_authority=Reichenbach
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|common_names=Floating Fern or Water Spangle Family
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Salviniaceae
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Salviniaceae]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 2
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 336
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="plant size;plant growth form or location;plant growth form or habitat"><b>Plants </b>small, floating aquatics.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem growth form or orientation;stem architecture;root count;root derivation"><b>Stems </b>creeping, branched, bearing hairs but no true roots.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="leaf architecture;leaf architecture;leaf prominence or shape;leaf architecture or shape;leaf growth form or location;leaf count;whorl count;leaf count;leaf coloration;leaf shape;leaf architecture;leaf shape;leaf orientation"><b>Leaves </b>in whorls of 3, with 2 leaves green, sessile or short-petioled, flat, entire, and floating, 1 leaf finely dissected, petiolate, rootlike, and pendent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="leaf location;indusium fixation;indusium texture"><b>Submerged </b>leaves bearing sori that surrounded by basifixed membranous indusia (sporocarps);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="sporocarp count;type count;megaspore count;microsporangium count;microspore count">sporocarps of 2 types, bearing either megasporangia that few in number (ca. 10), each with single megaspore, or many microsporangia, each with 64 microspores.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="spore sizes;spore architecture;kind count"><b>Spores </b>of 2 kinds and sizes, both globose, trilete.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="megagametophyte prominence;microgametophyte prominence"><b>Megagametophytes </b>and microgametophytes protruding through sporangium wall;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="megagametophyte growth form or location;megagametophyte orientation;surface habitat;archegonium orientation">megagametophytes floating on water surface with archegonia directed downward;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="sporangium wall fixation">microgametophytes remaining fixed to sporangium wall.</span><!--

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|distribution=Mostly tropical;North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Eurasia;Africa including Madagascar.
|discussion=<p>Genus 1, species 10 (1 species in the flora).</p>
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|references=
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name=Salviniaceae
|author=Clifton E. Nauman
|authority=Reichenbach
|rank=family
|parent rank=
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Salviniaceae
|illustrator=John Myers
|distribution=Mostly tropical;North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Eurasia;Africa including Madagascar.
|reference=None
|publication title=
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-fine-grained-xml.git/src/287ef3db526bd807d435a3c7423ef2df1e951227/V2/V2_654.xml
|archegonium orientation=directed
|indusium fixation=basifixed
|indusium texture=membranous
|kind count=2
|leaf architecture=petiolate;short-petioled;sessile
|leaf architecture or shape=entire
|leaf coloration=green
|leaf count=2;1
|leaf growth form or location=floating
|leaf location=submerged
|leaf orientation=pendent
|leaf prominence or shape=flat
|leaf shape=rootlike;dissected
|megagametophyte growth form or location=floating
|megagametophyte orientation=downward
|megagametophyte prominence=protruding
|megaspore count=single
|microgametophyte prominence=protruding
|microsporangium count=many
|microspore count=64
|plant growth form or habitat=aquatics
|plant growth form or location=floating
|plant size=small
|root count=no
|root derivation=true
|sporangium wall fixation=fixed
|spore architecture=trilete
|spore sizes=globose
|sporocarp count=few
|stem architecture=branched
|stem growth form or orientation=creeping
|surface habitat=water
|type count=2
|whorl count=3
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