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Plant species that are very scarce in the area grow there; this is true of the ferns: Acrostichium aurem, very common in the delta areas of the Orinoco and in the mangrove areas, Marsilea ancylopoda, Nephrolepis hirsutula, Pitygramma trifoliata, as well as the water lily Eichornia crassipes.
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Typha latifolia being the most common; Cyperaceae abound, Marsilea in profusion, Azolla, Mentha, Epilobii sp. as before, Lemna, Valisneria
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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Silurian beds the more highly organised vascular cryptogams appear in the form of rhizocarps -- plants allied to Marsilea and Azolla, -- and a very little higher, ferns, lycopods, and even conifers appear.
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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Marsilea grows everywhere on the flats; and a fine little pea plant with
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 Ludwig Leichhardt 1830
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Marsilea (salvinioides) foliis • oppositis utrinque pilosis longe radicatis globiferis.
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Marsilea foliis subulatis semicylindricis articula - tis.
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