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Azolla filiculoides Lam. (Water Fern)

Images etc

naked eye photograph On sale in garden centre 500 by 375 pixels

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #macrophotos
Azolla filiculoides Plant 21 March 1998 Berks England 3
Azolla filiculoides Plant 13 April 1975 West Sussex England 4

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Lansdown R.V. & Pankhurst T.J. Privately published

Azolla filiculoides may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
PTERIDOPHYTA
(ferns and allies)
PTEROPSIDA
(ferns)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Azolla filiculoides is associated with:

Photos Anabaena - a genus of cyanobacteria (Nostocales) is symbiotic with

Associated with Azolla filiculoides:

leaf, esp. above waterline leaf, esp. above waterline is foodplant of larva Stenopelmus rufinasus - Azolla Weevil (Coleoptera: Erirhinidae) UK/Ireland Morris, M.G., 2002
Bullock, J.A., 1992

Azolla filiculoides may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

PTEROPSIDA
(ferns)

References

Bullock, J.A., 1992 Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations
Morris, M.G., 2002 True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae

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