Salvinia molesta (Giant salvinia)

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Salvinia molesta Mitchell

Giant salvinia, kariba weed

Kingdom	Plantae	Plants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta	Vascular plants—plants with a “circulatory system” for delivering water and nutrients
Division	Pteridophyta	Ferns
Class	Filicopsida	“Leptosporangiate” (has to do with how their spores form) ferns—includes most ferns
Order	Hydropteridales
Family	Salviniaceae
Genus	Salvinia	After the Italian academic Antonio Maria Salvini (1633-1729), a professor of the Greek language at Florence who helped his friend the Italian botanist Pier’ Antonio Micheli with his botanical studies
Species	molesta	The only thing I could find about this so far is that molestus is the Latin root meaning “disturbed.” David Hollombe sent me the following: “molesta= troublesome, annoying, unmanageable (taxonomically?, or agriculturally?)”

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Salvinia molesta description by Thomas H. Kent, last updated 25 May 2020.

10/20/2012 · By Jacquelyn Boyt

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