Marsileaceae
Marsilea

Marsilea mutica Mett.

First published in Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 4, 15: 88 (1861)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is N. & E. Australia, New Caledonia. It is a rhizomatous hydrogeophyte and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

New Caledonia, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia

Introduced into:

Alabama, Maryland, Texas, Thailand, Victoria, Virginia

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). World Ferns: Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.
  • de Salas, MF, Baker, ML (2022). A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 1-161. Tasmanian Herbarium, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart. https://flora.tmag.tas.gov.au/resources/census/.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Feb 1, 1984 Brown, R. [s.n.], Australia K001092630 Yes
Sep 1, 1949 Vieillard, E. [1698], New Caledonia K001092629 Yes
Brown, R. [137], Australia K001092631 Yes

Sources

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images