EPPO Global Database

Wolffia arrhiza(WOLAR)

Overview
Code created in: 1996-10-28

Basic information
  • EPPO Code: WOLAR
  • Preferred name: Wolffia arrhiza
  • Authority: (Linnaeus) Wimmer

Notes

Europe (except northeast), western Mediterranean, Caucasus, Canary Islands, Western Asia (Iran), Himalayas, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Malesia (Philippines), China (Taiwan), Korea, Sénégal to Nigeria, Zaïre, East Africa, Angola, Mozambique, South Africa. Widely naturalized. Introduced in USA (California), South America (Brazil)


Other scientific names
Name Authority
Lemna arrhiza Linnaeus

Common names
Name Language
least duckweed English
rootless duckweed English (GB)
Entenlinse German
gemeine Zwerglinse German
gemeine Zwergwasserlinse German
wurzellose Wolffie German
Zwerglinse German
Zwergwasserlinse German
wolffia sans racines French
wolffie sans racines French
lentejilla de agua Spanish
wolffia Italian
wortelloos endekroos Dutch
wortelloos kroos Dutch
konaukikusa Japanese
mijinkôkikusa Japanese
コナウキクサ Japanese
ミジンコウキクサ Japanese
вольфия бескорневая Russian
kadrurit hammayim Hebrew
כַּדְרוּרִית הַמַּיִם Hebrew
wolffia bezkorzeniowa Polish
vízidara Hungarian
безкоренчеста волфия Bulgarian
wòlfia Catalan
wú píng Chinese
芜萍 Chinese
beskorjenska sitna leća Croatian
drobnička bezkořenná Czech
bešaknė volfija Lithuanian
drobuľka bezkoreňová Slovak
wolffia bezkoreňová Slovak
navadna vodna leča Slovene
вольфія безкоренева Ukrainian