Australian Tropical Ferns and Lycophytes - Online edition

Marsilea angustifolia

Family

Marsileaceae

Botanical name

Marsilea angustifolia R.Br.

Link to Australian Plant Name Index for publication details and synonyms: https://id.biodiversity.org.au/name/apni/104366

Common name

Narrow-leaf Nardoo

Description

Rhizome much-branched, glabrous except at the tips. Fronds 5–30 cm long, clustered. Stipes glabrous or scaly. Leaflets narrowly cuneate, 5–20 mm long, 3–5 mm wide, spreading equally, glabrous or scaly; outer margin entire, flat to rounded. Sporocarps in clusters; stalks 1–3 mm long, unbranched, glabrous; conceptacles 5–5.5 mm long, scaly, indistinctly ribbed; upper surface convex; upper basal tooth prominent; lower basal tooth absent; apex of the stalk forming a less prominent tooth-like protuberance.

Distribution

Endemic to NW NT and WA.

Habit and habitat

Aquatic or terrestrial in seasonally wet areas.

Citation of Australian Tropical Ferns and Lycophytes

Field AR, Quinn CJ, Zich FA (2022) Australian Tropical Ferns and Lycophytes. apps.lucidcentral.org/fern/text/intro/index.htm (accessed online INSERT DATE).

Field AR, Quinn CJ, Zich FA (2022) ‘Platycerium superbum’, in Australian Tropical Ferns and Lycophytes. apps.lucidcentral.org/fern/text/entities/platycerium_superbum.htm (accessed online INSERT DATE).

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