Marsilea
vestita ssp. vestita #
Small
perennial herbs with slender, creeping, rhizomes rooting in the mud.
Leaves petioled and with 2-to 4 foliate blades or filiform and bladeless.
Sori borne within hard round to bean-shaped sporocarps, which arise from
the base of the petioles or near them and bear microspores, which produce
antheridia and macrospores which produce female gametophytes.
Three genera. (Munz, Flora
So. Calif. 33).
Upper
Newport Bay species within the family:
Marsilea
vestita ssp. vestita #