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Salvinia natans

Floating Fern

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Common names

Floating Fern, Floating Watermoss.

Scientific name

Salvinia natans (L.) Аll.

Conservation status and threats

PROTECTED species in Bulgaria!

Description and identification

Salvinia natans is an annual floating aquatic fern. 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 pendent¹.

Habitat

Swamps, stagnant and slow-flowing waters².

Distribution in Bulgaria

Map of distribution in Bulgaria of Salvinia natans by floristic regions³:

References

1 Salvinia - Wikipedia.

2 Йорданов, Д. (ред.). 1963. Флора на Народна Република България, том І. Изд. на БАН, София.

3 Assyov, B., A. Petrova, D. Dimitrov & R. Vassilev. 2012. Conspectus of the vascular flora of Bulgaria. Sofia, Bulgarian biodiversity foundation.

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