Common Name
Hansen's Nardoo
Description
Marsilea hirsuta is a fascinating plant. It is often shipped with leaves that look like four-leaved clover. After an acclimation time its leaves change, though. Depending on the environment, it can assume a low growth habit with simple leaves looking like a large Glossostigma, however, it can also sprout leaves of different height divided into two, three or four parts, all depending on the conditions it grows in. No matter which form the leaves take, the plant will spread fast in your tank by runners.
New leafes of Marsilea have brown color. Those leafes are not rotten or dead.
Source
Flowgrow
Characteristic
Robust ground covering plant
Submersed leaves are roundish, on a stalk
Forms a 2-10 cm high and close carpet
New leafes with brown color
Synonyms
Marsilea azorica Launert & Paiva
Complete Botanical Name
Marsílea hirsúta R. Br.
Family
Marsileaceae
Genus
Marsilea
Category
Ground Cover
General Hardness
0-30 °dGH
Propagation
Runners, Splitting, Cutting off daughter plants
Can Grow Emersed?
yes
Aquascaping
forms a small-leaved carpet
