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|accepted_name=Salviniaceae
|accepted_authority=Reichenbach
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|common_names=Floating Fern or Water Spangle Family
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Salviniaceae
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Salviniaceae]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 2
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|treatment_page=page 336
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>small, floating aquatics. <b>Stems</b> creeping, branched, bearing hairs but no true roots. <b>Leaves</b> in whorls of 3, with 2 leaves green, sessile or short-petioled, flat, entire, and floating, 1 leaf finely dissected, petiolate, rootlike, and pendent. <b>Submerged</b> leaves bearing sori that are surrounded by basifixed membranous indusia (sporocarps); sporocarps of 2 types, bearing either megasporangia that are few in number (ca. 10), each with single megaspore, or many microsporangia, each with 64 microspores. <b>Spores</b> of 2 kinds and sizes, both globose, trilete. <b>Megagametophytes</b> and microgametophytes protruding through sporangium wall; megagametophytes floating on water surface with archegonia directed downward; microgametophytes remaining fixed to sporangium wall.</span><!--

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|distribution=Mostly tropical;North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Eurasia;Africa including Madagascar.
|discussion=<p>Genus 1, species 10 (1 species in the flora).</p>
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name=Salviniaceae
|author=Clifton E. Nauman
|authority=Reichenbach
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|family=Salviniaceae
|illustrator=John Myers
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=Mostly tropical;North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Eurasia;Africa including Madagascar.
|reference=None
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