• Family : LEMNACEAE
  (Arum Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : LEMNA FMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ARACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Lemna gibba L.
• Common name : Common Duckweed
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Stagnant waters
• Key identification features : A free-floating plant with slender long roots; lower surface is red; Flowers are very small.
• Flower, Fruit : August-January
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district, Chittoor district, Kadapa district, East Godavari district, Guntur district, Krishna district, Kurnool district, Nellore district, Prakasam district, Srikakulam district, Vishakapatnam district, Vizianagaram district, West Godavari district
  • Telangana : Nalgonda district, Khammam district, Mehboobnagar district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district
  • Kerala : Kollam district
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Pune district, Yavatmal district
  • Odisha : Angul district, Balasore district, Bargarh district, Bolangir district, Boudh district, Cuttack district, Deogarh district, Dhenkanal district, Gajapati district, Ganjam district, Kalhandi district, Kandhamal district, Kendrapara district, Keonjhar district, Khurda district, Koraput district, Malkangiri district, Mayurbhanj district, Puri district, Rayagada district,Sambalpur district, Sundergarh district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dindigul district, Dharmapuri district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Karur district, Krishnagiri district, Madurai district, Namakkal district, Pudukkottai district, Sivaganga district, Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tiruvannamalai district, Villipuram district, Vellore district
• Native : India, Sri Lanka, Africa
• World Distribution : Cosmopolitan
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : K.S.Rao-Flowering Plants of IISC, 2009; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Pullaiah, T., 1997. Flora of Andhra Pradesh. Vol. 3.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Lemna gibba. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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