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  • Salvinia sp.


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    Taxonomy

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    Kingdom: Plantae
    Phylum: Pteridophyta
    Class: Pteridopsida
    Order: Salviniales
    Family: Salviniaceae
    Genus: Salvinia
    Species: Salvinia sp.

    Geological Time Scale

    Eon: Phanerozoic
    Era: Cenozoic
    Period: Neogene
    Sub Period: None
    Epoch: Pliocene
    International Age: Piacenzian

    Stratigraphy

    Willershausen Formation

    Provenance

    Collector: T. Bastelberger
    Date Collected: 07/01/1972
    Acquired by: Field Collection

    Location

    Willershausen Clay Pit
    Willershausen am Harz
    Lower Saxony
    Germany

    Comments

    From Wikipedia: " Small, floating aquatics with creeping stems, branched, bearing hairs on the leaf surface papillae but no true roots. Leaves are in trimerous whorls, with two leaves green, sessile or short-petioled, flat, entire and floating, and one leaf finely dissected, petiolate, rootlike and pendent. Submerged leaves bearing sori that are surrounded by basifixed membranous indusia (sporocarps). "




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    13 hours ago, Innocentx said:

    Whoa that's interesting!

    Thank you. It took me a long time to figure out what it is. At first I thought it was leaves with an insect, but the "legs" have no joints - so insects could be excluded. Only by chance I saw a picture of Salvinia.

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    1 hour ago, oilshale said:

    Only by chance I saw a picture of Salvinia.

    Got to love it when things fall into place that way.

    I would never have thought plant for this.

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