Brazilian Watermeal
Scientific Name:Wolffia brasiliensis
Altenative names, synonyms, exist for this plant. See RPC Plant Details and check the refernce websites for additional information.
Synonym:Wolffia papulifera


NOTES: Floating, rootless, aquatic plant native to North and South America. Resembles specks of cornmeal. Watermeals are the world's smallest flowering plants, even smaller than the closely related duckweeds.

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Brazilian Watermeal
Genus species: Wolffia brasiliensis
     Synonym: Wolffia papulifera
Common Name: Brazilian Watermeal
Family Name: Lemnaceae  
Tiny, annual aquatics, floating on the water surface or suspended beneath, reproducing primarily asexually by budding and fragmentation; plant body a thallus (not distinguishable into stem and leaf); flowers unisexual (but rarely present), consisting of a single stamen or a single pistil; fruit a utricle.
Seed Type: Angiosperm
Origin:  
Native: native to North America.
Non-native: not native to North America.
Introduced Native: native to North
America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA
terminology
Native
Category:Aquatic
Identified by:M. Becus

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