Meaning | minute aquatic herbs floating on the water surface consisting of a shiny leaflike frond and 2-21 roots. |
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Synonym | genus Spirodela |
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Member of | Lemnaceae, family Lemnaceae, duckweed family | family of small free-floating thalloid plants |
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Members | great duckweed, water flaxseed, Spirodela polyrrhiza | cosmopolitan except South America and New Zealand and some oceanic islands |
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Broader | monocot genus, liliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed |
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Spanish | genus spirodela, spirodela |
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Catalan | genus spirodela, spirodela |
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