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Pillworts
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Pillworts

Pilularia

Pilularia or pillworts is a genus of unusual ferns of family Marsileaceae distributed in North Temperate regions, Ethiopian mountains, and the southern hemisphere in Australia, New Zealand, and western South America.

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7 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Pillwort

speciesPilularia globulifera

American pillwort

speciesPilularia americana

Pilularia novae-hollandiae

speciesPilularia novae-hollandiae

Pilularia minuta

speciesPilularia minuta

Pilularia bokkeveldensis

speciesPilularia bokkeveldensis

Pilularia ethiopica

speciesPilularia ethiopica

Pilularia dracomontana

speciesPilularia dracomontana

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 57887.