Occurrence (Special Areas) :
Gujarat Forestry Research Foundation, Indroda Park
About Lemna gibba Plant :
An aquatic herb with fronds floating, suborbicular or obovate, entire, not tailed, opaque, thick, flat above, at length very convex beneath.
The young fronds sessile, each giving rise to a single root-fibre, the under surface at length spongy and greatly swollen; root-sheath elongate, cylindric, root-cap acute.
Stamens 2. Fruit is utricle opening circumscissilely.
Seeds erect, anatropous, albumen scanty or 0.
Flowering and Fruiting Time : April - July
Significance : Found as an aquatic weed floating on the surface.
