Check List 14(2): 319-322, doi: 10.15560/14.2.319
First record of Pilularia americana A. Braun (Polypodiidae, Salviniales, Marsileaceae) from Peru
expand article infoBlanca León‡, Hamilton Beltrán§, Carlos Carrasco-Badajoz|, Edwin Portal-Quicaña|, Mariela Huaycha-Allcca|
‡ University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States of America§ Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru| Departamento de Biología, Laboratorio de Biodiversidad y Sistema de Información Geográfica, Universidad Nacional San Cristóbal de Huamanga, Ayacucho, Peru

Corresponding author: Blanca León ( leon@austin.utexas.edu )

Academic editor: Adaíses Simone Maciel da Silva
© 2018 Blanca León, Hamilton Beltrán, Carlos Carrasco-Badajoz, Edwin Portal-Quicaña, Mariela Huaycha-Allcca.
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation: León B, Beltrán H, Carrasco-Badajoz C, Portal-Quicaña E, Huaycha-Allcca M (2018) First record of Pilularia americana A. Braun (Polypodiidae, Salviniales, Marsileaceae) from Peru. Check List 14(2): 319-322. https://doi.org/10.15560/14.2.319
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Abstract

The aquatic fern Pilularia americana A. Braun is known from several countries in South and North America. Here we provide a first report of this species for Peru, from 2 localities in the Ancash and Ayacucho regions (central Peru), which confirm its presence in the national flora.

Keywords
Aquatic fern; high Andes; Peru