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Water Lettuce
Pistia stratiotes
-12.5024, 130.978
Field Notes
Description:
Aquatic plant, rosette of leaves to 8cms diameter, long trailing roots. Pistia is often used in the aquarium trade, to provide cover for fry and small fish.
Habitat:
Growing in small urban pond.
Notes:
It has the potential to reduce the biodiversity of a waterway. Mats of Pistia block gas exchange at the air-water interface, reducing the oxygen in the water and killing fish. They also block light, killing native submerged plants, and alter immersed plant communities by crushing them.
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PublishedMarch 31, 2013
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