EPPO Global Database

• EPPO Code: SPIPO
• Preferred name: Spirodela polyrrhiza
• Authority: (Linnaeus) Schleiden

Most of Euromediterranean region, Caucasus, Siberia, Russian Far East, Central Asia, Western Asia (Iran), India, Indochina, Malesia, China (including Taiwan), Japan, Korea, Guinée to Nigeria, Sudan to Mozambique and Zimbabwe, Canada, USA, Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, South America (Colombia to Peru), Australia (throughout). A floating aquatic weed. Genome sequence published in 2014