Plants. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, about 30km north west of Hay, NSW

Plants. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, near Innaminka, SA

Common Name

Common Nardoo

Family

Marsileaceae

Notes

Fern to 30cm tall, prostrate.  Leaves in clusters along the stem, each composed of four leaflets, each 0.5-3cm long and almost as wide, flat, hairy (or hairless in floating leaves), edges entire or toothed, tips rounded or notched.

Description (page 32) and line drawing of spore case (page 33 Fig. 3b) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Marsilea~drummondii