- Scientific name
- Salvinia molesta
- Common name
- African payal
- Kingdom / family
- Salviniaceae
- Genus
- Salvinia
- Category
- plantae
- Primary role
- weed
- Growth habit
- floating aquatic fern
- Native regions
- ["Argentina Northeast","Brazil Southeast","Brazil South","Denmark [I]; Netherlands [I]; Belgium [I]; Germany [I] (Rheinland-Pfalz [I]); Austria [I]; Hungary [I]; Portugal [I]; France [I]; Corsica [I]; Italy [I]; Mauritania [I]; Senegal [I]; Ivory Coast [I]; Ghana [I]; Benin [I]; Nigeria [I]; Cameroon [I]; Congo [I]; D.R.Congo [Zaire] [I]; Uganda [I]; Kenya [I]; Tanzania [I]; Zambia [I]; Malawi [I]; Zimbabwe [I]; Mozambique [I]; Namibia [I]; Botswana [I]; South Africa [I] (North West [I], Limpopo [I], Mpulamanga [I], KwaZulu-Natal [I], W-Cape Prov. [I], E-Cape Prov. [I]); Lesotho [I]; Eswatini [Swaziland] [I]; Taiwan [I]; Pakistan [I]; Nepal [I]; India [I] (widespread); Sri Lanka [I]; Bangladesh [I]; Thailand [I]; peninsular Malaysia [I]; Singapore [I]; South China Sea Isl. [I]; Borneo [I]; Philippines [I]; Java [I]; Lesser Sunda Isl. [I] (Bali [I]); Australia [I] (Western Australia [I], Northern Territory [I], E-Queensland [I], S-South Australia [I], E-New South Wales [I], S-Victoria [I]); New Zealand [I]; New Caledonia [I]; Vanuatu [I]; Fiji [I]; Hawaii [I] (Oahu [I], Hawaii Isl. [I]); USA [I] (Alabama [I], Arizona [I], Arkansas [I], California [I], Connecticut [I], Florida [I], Georgia [I], Kansas [I], Louisiana [I], Maryland [I], Mississippi [I], Missouri [I], New Mexico [I], North Carolina [I], South Carolina [I], Oklahoma [I], Oregon [I], Pennsylvania [I], Texas [I], Virginia [I], Washington State [I]); Mexico [I]; Guatemala [I]; Brazil (Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, São Paulo); Argentina (Corrientes)","Neotropical","Middle America","North America","Oceania","South America"]
- Invasive regions
- ["Reunion","Guadeloupe","Alabama","Arizona","Arkansas","Austria","Azores","Bangladesh","Belgium","Benin","Borneo","Botswana","Burkina","California","Cameroon","Cape Provinces","Comoros","Connecticut","Corse","Cuba","Denmark","Eswatini","Fiji","Florida","France","Georgia","Germany","Ghana","Guatemala","Hawaii","Hungary","India","Italy","Ivory Coast","Jawa","Kansas","Kenya","KwaZulu-Natal","Leeward Is.","Lesotho","Louisiana","Malawi","Malaya","Mali","Maryland","Mauritania","Mexico Northwest","Mississippi","Missouri","Mozambique","Namibia","Nepal","Netherlands","New Caledonia","New Guinea","New Mexico","New South Wales","Nigeria","North Carolina","Northern Provinces","Northern Territory","Oklahoma","Oregon","Pakistan","Palestine","Pennsylvania","Philippines","Portugal","Queensland","Senegal","South Australia","South Carolina","Sri Lanka","Taiwan","Tanzania","Texas","Thailand","Trinidad-Tobago","Türkiye","Uganda","Vanuatu","Victoria","Virginia","Washington","West Himalaya","Western Australia","Zambia","Zimbabwe","AT"]