Family · Ferns & allies
Marsileaceae
Water clover
Rooted aquatic ferns with clover-like or grass-like leaves and spores enclosed in hard sporocarps.
- Accepted species
- 58accepted names · Kew WCVP
- Genera
- 3accepted genera · Kew WCVP
- Origin
- ≈95 MaCretaceous · crown age, Jin & Qian 2022 megatree
- Centre of diversity
- Africamost native species · WGSRPD
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Plants you might know
- Marsilea
- Pilularia
- Regnellidium
Genera
Marsilea50 spp.
Pilularia7 spp.
Regnellidium1 spp.
Where it grows
- Africa32
- Southern America10
- Australasia10
- Northern America9
- Europe6
- Asia-Temperate6
- Asia-Tropical6
- Pacific2
Native species richness by botanical continent (WGSRPD level 1), from Kew WCVP.
Related families
Marsileaceae sits in the order Salviniales.