• Family : LEMNACEAE
  (Duckweed Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : LEMNA FMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ARACEAE
• Basionym : Lemna polyrrhiza L.
• Synonym(s) : Lemna orbiculata Roxb.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Spirodela polyrrhiza (L.) Schleid.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Ponds, lakes and ditches
• Comments / notes : Aquatic herbs, floating. Common in still water
• Flower, Fruit : September-April
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Pune district, Satara district, Thane district, Yavatmal district
  • Odisha : Khurda district
• World Distribution : Tropical & Temperate regions of the world
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• 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=Spirodela polyrrhiza. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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