Lemna minor L.

Spice

Family: LEMNACEAE

Genus: Lemna

Catalan common name: Llentia d'aigua. Llentiol. Pa de granotes.

Spanish common name: Lentaje de agua.

Province distribution: Alacant. Balearic Islands. Barcelona. Castelló. Girona. Lleida. Tarragona. València.

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca. Menorca. Ibiza.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Cosmopolitan and subcosmopolitan

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Hydrophyte.

Habitats: Non-saline wetlands (intermittent watercourses, streams, artesian wells, ditches). Ponds.

Characteristics: The duckweeds are unmistakable plants: they live floating, with a long root that hangs under the water, and leaves like lentils. The leaves often generate other leaves by asexual division. Lemna minor is smaller than Lemna gibba which is the other species of this genus in the Balearic Islands, and moreover it is flat on both sides of the leaf, whereas Lemna gibba is very convex on the underside (the submerged side). It lives in ponds, canals, along the sides of wetland...