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Description

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Free-floating aquatic plants; rhizomes slender, roots simple. Leaves alternate in 2 rows, equally lobed with submerged lobe containing cavities with cyanobacteria and a chlorophyllous floating lobe, veins free. Sori in sporocarps borne in axils of submerged lobes.
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Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
bibliographic citation
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Azolla Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=89
author
Mark Hyde
author
Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
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