Salviniales of Thailand
Salviniales are all aquatic and differ from all other ferns in being heterosporous, meaning that they produce two different types of spores (megaspores and microspores) that develop into two different types of gametophytes (female and male gametophytes, respectively), and in that their gametophytes are endosporic, meaning that they never grow outside the spore wall and cannot become larger than the spores that produced them. In being heterosporus with endosporic gametophytes they are more similar to seed plants than to other ferns. Wikipedia
Family: Marsileaceae (Water-clovers and Pillworts)
Genera: Marsilea
Marsilea crenata (Clover Fern)
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Family: Salviniaceae (Mosquito Fern)
Genera: Azolla, Salvinia
Azolla caroliniana (Water Fern)
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Salvinia cucullata (Floating Fern)
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