Plants
Other Fresh Water Plants
Sighting 4229752

Lemna disperma

Common Duck-weed at Fadden, ACT

Lemna disperma at Fadden, ACT - 7 Jul 2019 03:18 PM
Lemna disperma at Fadden, ACT - 7 Jul 2019 03:18 PM
Lemna disperma at Fadden, ACT - 7 Jul 2019 03:18 PM
Lemna disperma at Fadden, ACT - 7 Jul 2019 03:18 PM
Request use of media

Identification history

Lemna disperma 1 Aug 2019 MichaelMulvaney
Lemna disperma 12 Jul 2019 Mike
Unverified 11 Jul 2019 Mike

Identify this sighting

Please Login or Register to identify this sighting.

3 comments

Heino1 wrote:
   12 Jul 2019
Mike, rather than fungus/moss/etc I suspect this is one of the tiny, vascular aquatic plants - in the duckweed line or similar. Have a look through the aquatic plants on CNM to see if you can find a possible match. The only moss/liverwort' candidate in such a habitat is Ricciocarpos (https://canberra.naturemapr.org/Community/Species/Sightings/15582) and I don't see that lobed structure in your photos.
Mike wrote:
   12 Jul 2019
It was just a guess. The structure didn't look plantlike but I will look at possibilities.
Mike wrote:
   12 Jul 2019
Leaves are more rounded and less green than other Lemna disperma I've seen but I don't know of another common possibility. Maybe it is just young.

Please Login or Register to comment.

Location information

Sighting information

Species information

Record quality

  • Images or audio
  • More than one media file
  • Verified by an expert moderator
  • Nearby sighting(s) of same species
  • GPS evidence of location
  • Description
  • Additional attributes
829,260 sightings of 22,814 species from 14,337 members
CCA 3.0 | privacy
NatureMapr is developed by at3am IT Pty Ltd and is proudly Australian made