Calling on all Marsilea folk... - Page 2 - General Aquarium Plants Discussions

miremonster · 07-04-2009, 11:55 AM

Glosso: decussate leaf arrangement (2 leaves per node). Marsilea: distichous leaf arrangement (1 leaf on each node of the rhizom).

SOLOMON · 07-04-2009, 05:30 PM

I have a few types, probably different to the ones you have avaliable though. I'll try and find my pictures, yours looks pretty similar..

I have M. hirsuta, M. drummondii and M. costulifera.

ingg · 07-05-2009, 07:17 AM

EMc, it is a Marselea, lol, it doesn't look like Glosso.

Dave, was this from the package GWAPA sent?

That doesn't look like minuta, it looks like the other one that floats around inside our club...

Minuta is TINY. And it has always stayed tiny no matter what I did to it, it dies on me before transitioning to a big size...

The other one we sent, whatever it is, gets lobes at least 4mm, and will get very very tall and reach for light when shaded. (I have some of this one outside in my container pond, we'll see if it will show an ID).

I think I lost my last bits of minuta in a rescape, I'll look arund for it and see if I can post comparitive "head" sizes - I've never personally seen Minuta get a head larger than about 2-3mm or so.

and yes, there are a lot of misnamed ones being sold. I sometimes think people just label it that way to sell it - I've seen a lot of it get bought lately that was far too large to be minuta.

davemonkey · 07-05-2009, 07:38 PM

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Originally Posted by ingg

EMc, it is a Marselea, lol, it doesn't look like Glosso.

Dave, was this from the package GWAPA sent?

That doesn't look like minuta, it looks like the other one that floats around inside our club...

Minuta is TINY. And it has always stayed tiny no matter what I did to it, it dies on me before transitioning to a big size...

The other one we sent, whatever it is, gets lobes at least 4mm, and will get very very tall and reach for light when shaded. (I have some of this one outside in my container pond, we'll see if it will show an ID).

I think I lost my last bits of minuta in a rescape, I'll look arund for it and see if I can post comparitive "head" sizes - I've never personally seen Minuta get a head larger than about 2-3mm or so.

and yes, there are a lot of misnamed ones being sold. I sometimes think people just label it that way to sell it - I've seen a lot of it get bought lately that was far too large to be minuta.

Howdy Dave! Yes, this was from the package that GWAPA sent around last November. Perhaps it is the other one that the club has. If you could get some to producer reproductive structures I'd be most appreciative. I gave away my extra tank so I have nowhere to do an outdoor trial (that the dog wouldn't get to).

However, I did put some outdoors just prior to giving that tank away and some slightly hirsute petioles were produced. The hairs were very fine and I'm not sure if this is characteristic of all Marsilea spp or not. (Cavan, does this sound normal for the genus? )

I have to admit I'm guilty of selling this as "minuta", but I promise it was not on purpose (please don't hate me Donald

). Of coarse, now I just call it "Marsilea sp".