Species profile—Salvinia molesta (salvinia)
Classification
Plantae (plants) → Equisetopsida (land plants) → Salviniaceae → Salvinia molesta (salvinia)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Plantae (plants)
- Class
- Equisetopsida (land plants)
- Family
- Salviniaceae
- Scientific name
- Salvinia molesta D.S.Mitch.
- Common name
- salvinia
- WildNet taxon ID
- 16276
- Alternate name(s)
- African payal
giant salvinia
acquarium watermoss
Kariba weed - Biosecurity Act 2014 (BIO) status
- Restricted Matter
- Conservation significant
- No
- Confidential
- No
- Wetland status
- Wetland Indicator Species
- Endemicity
- Introduced
- Pest status
- Environmental Weed
Other resources
The Australasian Virtual Herbarium (AVH) Atlas of Living AustraliaData source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=16276
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.