Riccia breutelii
Floating Crystalwort
Riccia fluitans
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- Botanical name
- Riccia fluitans
- Also known as
- Floating Crystalwort
- Family
- Ricciaceae
- Genus
- Riccia
- Reference
- World Flora Online
How to grow Floating Crystalwort
We have not written a growing guide for this species yet.
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Other names for this plant
These names have all been used for Riccia fluitans but are no longer the accepted name. You may still meet them on old labels, in books, or in nursery catalogues.
Fysonia tenera
Riccardia dichotoma
Riccia canaliculata f. fluitans
Riccia canaliculata var. fluitans
Riccia centrifuga
Riccia eudichotoma var. fluitans
Riccia fluitans f. aquatica
Riccia fluitans f. fluitans
Riccia fluitans f. gracilis
Riccia fluitans f. lata
Riccia fluitans f. limicola
Riccia fluitans f. minor
Riccia fluitans f. terrestris
Riccia fluitans subf. lata
Riccia fluitans subsp. fluitans
Riccia fluitans var. aquatica
Riccia fluitans var. lata
Riccia fluitans var. minor
Riccia fluitans var. nana
Riccia fluitans var. pallida
Riccia fluitans var. viridescens
Riccia media
Ricciella fluitans
Ricciella fluitans f. fluitans
Ricciella fluitans f. robusta
Ricciella fluitans f. terrestris
Ricciella fluitans var. birmensis
Ricciella fluitans var. fluitans
Ricciella fluitans var. hydrophila
Ricciella fluitans var. terrestris
Ricciella minor
Others in Riccia
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