Re: U.olivacea smallest flowering plant?

From: Chad Christensen (chrst@srv.net)
Date: Fri Sep 25 1998 - 18:30:26 PDT

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Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 19:30:26 -0600 (MDT)
From: Chad Christensen <chrst@srv.net>
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Subject: Re: U.olivacea smallest flowering plant?

>I've seen a reference somwhere stating that U.olivacea could be the
>smallest flowering plant by mass in the plant kingdom. I think this was
>in Taylor's _Monograph_ but that's such a huge book... Does anyone know
>where I can find a reference for this claim, or even better, refutation
>or confirmation?
>Derek Glidden.

Here's a refutation for that claim.
World's Smallest Flowering Plant! http://daphne.palomar.edu/wayne/plmar96.htm
Personally, I've never seen a duckweed flower.

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