Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon

Bayer Code : lemmi

Scientific name: Lemna minor L.

Synonym(s) of Sc. name:

Classification: Lemnaceae, Monocotyledonous

Common name: common duck weed

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE leine Wasserlinse ; ES : lenteja de agua ; FR : petite lentille-d'eau ; IT : lenticchia d'acqua comune ; PT : lentilhas-de-água-menores ; EN : common duck weed ;

Biological type: Perennial

Seedling:

Plant essentially vegetatively propagated by adventitious budding of small leaves (blades).

Adult plant:

-Stem absent.

-Leaves (also called fronds) very small, floating, ovate or oblong (1.5-5 mm long) fused together 2,3 or 4, flat, thickened underneath, reticulate,15-20 meshes of 0.1-0.25 mm.

-Flowers two male with one single stamen and one female pistil.

-Fruits : achenes.

-Especially aquatic, floating, with long raceme.

- Biological type : Perennial.

Mistake with: Lemna gibba

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