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|accepted_name=Pilularia
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 1100. 1753; Gen. Pl. ed. 5, 486, 1754
|year=1754
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|common_names=Pillwort
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Marsileaceae;Pilularia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Marsileaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Pilularia]]</div></div>
|etymology=Latin pilula, a little ball, in reference to the spheric sporocarps
|volume=Volume 2
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>aquatic, commonly entirely under water and infrequently persisting on bare mud. <b>Roots</b> arising at nodes. <b>Leaves</b> filiform, terete, lacking expanded blades. <b>Sporocarps</b> subterranean, borne on unbranched stalks arising at bases of petioles, attached laterally to stalk apex (attached portion called raphe), lacking teeth; sporocarps densely to sparsely hairy, less so with age, dehiscing into 4 valves.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;South America;Europe;Pacific Islands in New Zealand;Australia.
|discussion=<p>Species 6 (1 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=dennis1981a
|text=Dennis, W. M. and D. H. Webb. 1981. The distribution of Pilularia americana A. Br. (Marsileaceae) in North America, north of Mexico. Sida 9: 19--24. Petrik-
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|id=ott1980a
|text=Ott, A. J. and F. D. Ott. 1980. Pilularia americana new to Tennessee. Amer. Fern J. 70: 29--30.
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name=Pilularia
|author=David M. Johnson
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Marsileaceae
|distribution=North America;South America;Europe;Pacific Islands in New Zealand;Australia.
|reference=dennis1981a;ott1980a
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1754
|special status=
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|genus=Pilularia
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