Lemna minuta New records in vascular plants alien to Tenerife (Spain, Canary Islands) Verloove, Filip Biodiversity Data Journal 2021 2021-04-26 9 62878 62878 958492D4-4DF3-501D-9A0C-B24E3F4EE647 Kunth, 1815 [1816]. Kunth, 1815 1816 Monocotyledoneae Lemnaceae Lemna GBIF Plantae Lemna minuta Spathiflorae 0 62878 Angiospermae species minuta   Lemna minutaNov. Gen. Spec. (quarto ed.) 1: 372. 1815 [1816].  Distribution TENERIFE: Santa Ursula, La Quinta, seepage area, 11.12.2018, F. Verlooves.c. https://observation.org/observation/205285824/  Notes This American duckweed is a recent newcomer in the flora of the Canary Islands. It was first reported from several localities in Gran Canaria ( Verloove 2013, Salas-Pascual and Quintana Vega 2016), subsequently also from La Palma ( Otto and Verloove 2020). It is a naturalised weed that also occurs in natural habitats. As it strongly resembles  L. minorL., it is undoubtedly overlooked.  L. minutais differentiated from the latter, based on the smaller fronds (even the largest are less than 3 mm long) with a single, slightly raised vein. In La Quinta, a small population was discovered in a seepage zone in 2018. It should be looked for elsewhere in the northern part of the Island.   Lemna minutais a well-known transformer species throughout the invaded range ( Paolacci et al. 2018).