796.000 Wolffia Horkel ex Schleid.

Description of the genus

Minute, floating aquatics with thalli usually less than 1 mm. Roots 0. Thalli solitary or 2 cohering, inflated, globular; nerves 0. Budding pouch 1. Inflorescence of 1 female and 1 male flower without a membranous spathe. Anther 1-thecous. Fruit 1-seeded. Seed up to 0.5 mm, spherical, smooth and spongy.

Worldwide: c.7 species, ± cosmopolitan but not in colder areas

Mozambique: 1 taxon.

No image yet

Links to taxa:     View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
arrhiza (L.) Wimm.GI

Other sources of information about Wolffia:

Our websites:

Flora of Botswana: Wolffia
Flora of Burundi: Wolffia
Flora of Zimbabwe: Wolffia

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Wolffia
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Wolffia
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Wolffia
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Wolffia
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Wolffia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Wolffia
JSTOR Plant Science: Wolffia
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Wolffia
Plants of the World Online: Wolffia
Tropicos: Wolffia
Wikipedia: Wolffia

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave 2007-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Mozambique: Genus page: Wolffia.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=308, retrieved 11 December 2024

Site software last modified: 12 October 2020 11:11pm
Terms of use