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|accepted_name=Salvinia
|accepted_authority=Séguier
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Pl. Veron.
|place=3: 52. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|common_names=Floating fern;water spangles
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Salviniaceae;Salvinia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Salviniaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Salvinia]]</div></div>
|etymology=for Antonia Maria Salvini,1653--1729, an Italian professor of Greek who helped Micheli with his botanical work.
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>with many multicellular hairs. <b>Leaves</b> horizontally spreading. <b>Blades</b> of floating leaves green and pubescent abaxially (on side away from water). <b>Sporocarps</b> borne on chainlike or cymelike organs or submerged leaves; sporangia indehiscent, dispersed as units when sporocarps decay.</span><!--

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|distribution=Mostly tropical;North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Eurasia;Africa including Madagascar.
|discussion=<p>Leaf development in <i>Salvinia</i> is unique. The upper side of the floating leaf, which appears to face the stem axis, is morphologically abaxial (J. G. Croxdale 1978, 1979, 1981).</p><!--
--><p>Species ca. 10 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Salvinia
|authority=Séguier
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Salviniaceae
|distribution=Mostly tropical;North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Eurasia;Africa including Madagascar.
|reference=None
|publication title=Pl. Veron.
|publication year=1754
|special status=
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|genus=Salvinia
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