Marsilea

Accepted species 52 Documented here 14 Family Marsileaceae

Accepted species 52 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Marsilea vestita Hook. & Grev. 144 documented
Marsilea minuta L. 28 documented
Marsilea macropoda Engelm. ex A.Braun 27 documented
Marsilea drummondii A.Braun 24 documented
Marsilea mutica Mett. 16 documented
Marsilea hirsuta R.Br. 12 documented
Marsilea villosa Kaulf. 12 documented
Marsilea quadrifolia L. 9 documented
Marsilea ancylopoda A.Braun 8 documented
Marsilea mollis B.L.Rob. & Fernald 6 documented
Marsilea crenata A.Braun 5 documented
Marsilea macrocarpa C.Presl 5 documented
Marsilea farinosa Launert 4 documented
Marsilea oligospora Goodd. 3 documented
Marsilea costulifera D.L.Jones 1 below the evidence gate
Marsilea polycarpa Hook. & Grev. 1 below the evidence gate
Marsilea aegyptiaca Willd. 0 below the evidence gate
Marsilea aegyptica Willd. 0 below the evidence gate
Marsilea aethiopica Launert 0 below the evidence gate
Marsilea ancyclopoda A.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Marsilea angustifolia R.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Marsilea apposita Launert 0 below the evidence gate
Marsilea batardae Launert 0 below the evidence gate
Marsilea berhautii Tardieu 0 below the evidence gate
Marsilea botryocarpa F.Ballard 0 below the evidence gate
Marsilea burchellii (Kunze) A.Braun 0 below the evidence gate
Marsilea capensis A.Braun 0 below the evidence gate
Marsilea coromandelina Willd. 0 below the evidence gate
Marsilea crotophora D.M.Johnson 0 below the evidence gate
Marsilea cryptocarpa Albr. & Chinnock 0 below the evidence gate
Marsilea deflexa A.Braun 0 below the evidence gate
Marsilea distorta A.Braun 0 below the evidence gate
Marsilea ephippiocarpa Alston 0 below the evidence gate
Marsilea exarata A.Braun 0 below the evidence gate
Marsilea fadeniana Launert 0 below the evidence gate
Marsilea fenestrata Launert 0 below the evidence gate
Marsilea gibba A.Braun 0 below the evidence gate
Marsilea globulosa Bouchart 0 below the evidence gate
Marsilea latzii D.L.Jones 0 below the evidence gate
Marsilea megalomanica Launert 0 below the evidence gate
Marsilea nashii Underw. 0 below the evidence gate
Marsilea nubica A.Braun 0 below the evidence gate
Marsilea owambo Doweld 0 below the evidence gate
Marsilea pyriformis Bouchart 0 below the evidence gate
Marsilea quadrata A.Braun 0 below the evidence gate
Marsilea scalaripes D.M.Johnson 0 below the evidence gate
Marsilea schelpeana Launert 0 below the evidence gate
Marsilea strigosa Willd. 0 below the evidence gate
Marsilea subangulata A.Braun 0 below the evidence gate
Marsilea subterranea Leprieur; A.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Marsilea unicornis Launert 0 below the evidence gate
Marsilea villifolia Bremek. & Oberm. ex Alston & Schelpe 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.