Zannichellia palustris L.

Spice Detail Fruit detail In the field

Family: ZANNICHELLIACEAE

Genus: Zannichellia

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

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca. Menorca. Formentera.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Some regions

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Hydrophyte.

Habitats: Litoral marshes and riparian. Non-saline wetlands (intermittent watercourses, streams, artesian wells, ditches). Salt marshes and non-saline wetlands.

Characteristics: A very small and rhizomatous aquatic plant. Each node can root and develop an outward-growing bundle of elongated and very narrow leaves. The flowers, whitish, emerge set on the node axial, normally in pairs of two.