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Azollaceae

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n.1.a family designation used in some classifications for the genus Azolla.
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Noun1.Azollaceae - used in some classifications for the genus Azolla
fern family - families of ferns and fern allies
Filicales, order Filicales, order Polypodiales, Polypodiales - true (leptosporangiate) ferns


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AZOLLACEAE Wettstein AZOLLA Lamarck Mosquito fern Aquatic; roots threadlike, up to 5 cm long; stems dichotomously branched forming rotund to oblong plants about 1-3 cm in diameter; fronds minute, bilobed, pubescent, green to reddish-green.
The following families of this order, treated in this paper, are Aspleniaceae (spleenworts), Azollaceae (mosquito ferns), Blechnaceae (chain ferns), and Dennstaedtiaceae (bracken and hay-scented ferns).
pinnatifidum] {Jackson & Etowah/Short 1978} AZOLLACEAE (Mosquito Fern Family) Azolla caroliniana Willd.
 
 
 
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