Salviniaceae

3-421.11.00IntroductionEnglish: Watermoss.
Clades: Salviniales; Salviniidae; Lycopodianae; Pteridophyta; Plants.
Members: 1 genus, Salvinia; 14 species.
Region: North America, Mexico, West Indies, Central America, South America, Eurasia, Africa, Madagascar, South Borneo, Asia.
Habitat: aquatic; mostly tropical.
Ecology: invasive weed in warm climates, South America; forming dense mats over still waters.
Use: mopping up oil spills; trichomes as a model for a similarly hydrophobic synthetic polycarbonate.BotanyFern; floating; small.
Root: rhizophorous.
Stem: creeping; branched; non-protostelic; bearing hairs on the leaf surface papillae; trimerous whorls, 2 green, sessile or short-petioled, flat, entire, floating, 1 finely dissected, petiolate, rootlike and pendent; submerged leaves bearing sori that are surrounded by basifixed membranous indusia (sporocarps).
Leaves: ligulate; floating; upper side appears to face the stem axis, is morphologically abaxial.
Sporocarps: two types; either megasporangia that are few in number (approximately 10), each with single megaspore, or many microsporangia, each with 64 microspores.
Spores: globose, trilete; heterosporous, two kinds and sizes; megagametophytes and microgametophytes protruding through sporangium wall; megagametophytes floating on water surface with archegonia directed downward; microgametophytes remaining fixed to sporangium wall.
The small, hairlike growths, known as trichomes or microgametical follicles, are not known to have any productive function, and are currently a biological mystery.EssenceThey feel insecure, as if in a new situation where they do not know how to behave. They feel blocked, not knowing how to communicate. When they are in a secure, known situation they feel much better, feeling peace, tranquility and rest.
They feel that life is not flowing, as if things are separate, that their body is separate, that abdomen, chest and head are separated from each other, like in insects. The energy is not flowing.MindDelusion: I don't understand my own rules.
Neutral about everything.
Can only experience events, but cannot act or digest them.
Lack of identity.
Ask permission for everything, trifles: Can I do this?”.
Hiding.
Can only absorb emotions.
Dementia, forgets everything, himself.
Fear: new places; other persons; not knowing how to behave.
Absent-minded; foggy; spaced out.
Lack of boundaries, foggy, disappearing into nothingness.
Duality: conscious and unconscious; inferior and superior; inside and outside.
Delusion: being imprisoned, limited, arrested; surrounded by glass.
Delusion: being separated from grace; overthrown by the strength of the earth.
Sleepy, relaxing, yawning.BodyNervous: dementia, Alzheimer.
Vertigo: dizzy.
Head: full forehead.
Nose: full; obstructed; sinusitis.
Mouth: salivation.
Chest: as if full of water.
Stomach: full water; indigestion.
Abdomen: full of gas and water, rumbling.
Limbs: formication, energy goes up, to abdomen and then stops.Stages Remedies1 Salvinia auriculata