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Salvinia or watermosses [1] is a genus of free-floating aquatic ferns in the family Salviniaceae. The genus is named in honor of 17th-century Italian naturalist Anton Maria Salvini , and the generic name was first published in 1754 by French botanist Jean-François Séguier in Plantae Veronenses , a description of the plants found around Verona ...
Salvinia minima is a species of aquatic, floating fern that grows on the surface of still waterways. [1] It is usually referred to as common salvinia or water spangles . Salvinia minima is native to South America, Mesoamerica, and the West Indies and was introduced to the United States in the 1920s–1930s. [ 2 ]
Salvinia molesta, commonly known as giant salvinia, or as kariba weed after it infested a large portion of Lake Kariba between Zimbabwe and Zambia, is an aquatic fern, native to south-eastern Brazil. [1]
Salvinia natans (commonly known as floating fern, [4] floating watermoss, [5] floating moss, or commercially, water butterfly wings) [6] is an annual floating aquatic ...
The Salvinia effect describes the permanent stabilization of an air layer upon a hierarchically structured surface submerged in water. Based on biological models (e.g. the floating ferns Salvinia , backswimmer Notonecta ), biomimetic Salvinia-surfaces are used as drag reducing coatings (up to 30% reduction were previously measured on the first ...
Salviniaceae (/ s æ l ˌ v ɪ n i ˈ eɪ s i ˌ iː /), [1] [2] is a family of heterosporous ferns in the order Salviniales. [3] The Salviniaceae contain the two genera Azolla and Salvinia, [4] with about 20 known species in total. [5]
Cyrtobagous salviniae is a species of weevil known as the salvinia weevil. It is used as an agent of biological pest control against the noxious aquatic plant giant salvinia (Salvinia molesta). The adult weevil is about 2 millimeters long. It is brown in color during its first few days of adult life and soon turns shiny black.
Salvinia oblongifolia is a species of plant in the Salviniaceae. [1] Its leaves can grow with up to 6 cm long and 2.5 cm wide, making it the largest species in the genus Salvinia [ 2 ] . Leaves are rectangular and approximately three times as long as wide with short blunt papillae that are arranged in double rows on the upper leaf surface ...