BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
LEMNACEAE (duckweeds)
Subtaxa
| Rank | Taxon |  |
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 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genus | Lemna (duckweeds) | 3 | 19 | 10 | 2 |
| Species | Spirodela polyrhiza (L.) Schleiden (Greater Duckweed) | 7 | 5 | 1 |
Suggested Literature
Identification Works
| Lansdown R.V. & Pankhurst T.J. | Privately published |
LEMNACEAE may also be covered by literature listed under:
|
BIOTA (living things) |
Eukaryota (eukaryotes) |
PLANTAE (plants) |
SPERMATOPHYTA (vascular plants) |
MAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants) |
LILIIDAE (monocotyledonous flowering plants) |
Feeding and other inter-species relationships
Associated with LEMNACEAE:
| leaflet (live) | live leaflet is mined by larva | Tanysphyrus lemnae - Duckweed Weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) | 
|
Robbins, R., 1990 [larva fully mines out successive leaflets. Frass grains relatively large and numerous. Pupates externally between spun leaflets.] | |
| leaflet (live) | live leaflet is mined by larva | Hydrellia albilabris - a shore fly (Diptera: Ephydridae) | Robbins, R., 1990 [mines with little frass] | ||
| leaflet (live) | live leaflet is mined by larva | Cataclysta lemnata - Small China-mark (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) |
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Robbins, R., 1990 [mines out most or all of frond then feeds externally from case] | |
| leaflet (live) | live leaflet is grazed by mobile cased larva | Cataclysta lemnata - Small China-mark (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) |
|
Robbins, R., 1990 [mines out most or all of frond then feeds externally from case] |
Lemnaceae may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level
|
MAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants) |
LILIIDAE (monocotyledonous flowering plants) |
References
| Robbins, R., 1990 | A Provisional Atlas of The Leaf Miners of Warwickshire, with notes on others occurring in the midlands |
