Salvinia bilobaRaddi

giant salvinia

WFO wfo-0001261668 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Salvinia biloba, photographed by Ezequiel Vera
fig. a Ezequiel Vera, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-02 / obs. 125521549
Salvinia biloba, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. b Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 1920653
Salvinia biloba, photographed by RAP
fig. c RAP, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 56160695
Salvinia biloba, photographed by RAP
fig. d RAP, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 55416679
Salvinia biloba, photographed by RAP
fig. e RAP, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 59345490
Salvinia biloba, photographed by RAP
fig. f RAP, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 49509655
Salvinia biloba, photographed by RAP
fig. g RAP, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 51246535
Salvinia biloba, photographed by RAP
fig. h RAP, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 77874005

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Salvinia biloba is native: Argentina Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Paraguay, Uruguay Argentina NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastParaguayUruguay
Native distribution of Salvinia biloba, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Paraguay PAR
Uruguay URU

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 1 synonym

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Salvinia herzogii de la Sota

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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