Lemna gibba

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	LILIOPSIDA	ARALES	LEMNACEAE

Scientific Name:

Lemna gibba

Species Authority:

Common Name/s:

English	–	Fat Duckweed
French	–	Lenticule Bossue, Lentille Bossue

Synonym/s:

Lemna cordata Sessé & Moc.

Lemna parodiana Giardelli

Lenticula gibba (L.) Moench

Lenticula gibbosa Renault

Limna cordata Sesse & Moc.

Limna parodiana Giardelli

Telmatophace gibba (L.) Schleid

Telmatophace gibbosa (Renault) Montand

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Least Concern ver 3.1
Year Published:	2011
Assessor/s:	Kumar, B.
Reviewer/s:	Lakshminarasimhan, P., Rasingam, L., Gunaga, S., Raghavan, R. & Molur, S.
Contributor/s:	Molur, S.
Justification: Lemna gibba is assessed as Least Concern as the species is widely distributed, common and without any threats.

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Lemna gibba is distributed in throughout the world in warm and Mediterranean climatic regions, naturalized in Japan (Cook 1996) and absent in polar and the tropics. It is also present in most of Europe, South and South West Asia, Sri Lanka, NE & South Africa and South America. In India this species reported from Gujarat, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Chattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra (Lakshminarasimhan 1996), Kerala (Nayar et al 2006) and Tamil Nadu. In Gulf of Mannar occasionally found in mainland coast (Daniel and Umamaheswari 2001). But Anand kumar (2001) reported that this species is distributed throughout India.
Countries:	Native: Albania; Andorra; Argentina (Buenos Aires, Chubut, Rio Negro); Australia; Austria; Belgium; Bolivia, Plurinational States of; Colombia; Croatia; Czech Republic; Denmark; Ecuador; Finland; France; Germany; Gibraltar; Greece; Hungary; India (Chattisgarh, Gujarat, Jammu-Kashmir, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Punjab, Tamil Nadu); Ireland; Israel; Italy; Jordan; Lebanon; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacán, Oaxaca, Puebla, Sonora, Tamaulipas); Morocco; Netherlands; Norway; Palestinian Territory, Occupied; Peru; Poland; Portugal; Slovenia; Spain; Sri Lanka; Sweden; Switzerland; Syrian Arab Republic; Tanzania, United Republic of; Uganda; United Kingdom; United States (Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Wyoming); Uruguay; Yemen
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Population [top]

Population:	No population information on this species.
Population Trend:	Unknown

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	This herb is freely floating and grows in stagnant water (Anand kumar 2001), ponds and tanks (Lakshminarasimhan 1996).Usually found in mesotropic to eutrophic waters (Cook 1996). It grows in water rich in nitrates and carbonate (Sharma et al. 2010).
Systems:	Freshwater

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	No threats has been reported for this species.

Major Threat(s):

No threats has been reported for this species.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	No conservation actions are known for this species.

Conservation Actions:

No conservation actions are known for this species.

Citation:	Kumar, B. 2011. Lemna gibba. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 May 2013.
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