Bed-jacket vs Water spangles

Alectryon tomentosus compared with Salvinia minima

Key Differences

• Bed-jacket is Least Concern while Water spangles is Not Evaluated.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Bed-jacket	Water spangles
Kingdom same	Plantae (Plants)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Tracheophyta
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Polypodiopsida (Polypodiopsida)
Order	Sapindales (Sapindales)	Salviniales (Salviniales)
Family	Sapindaceae	Salviniaceae
Genus	Alectryon	Salvinia
Species	Alectryon tomentosus	Salvinia minima

Evolutionary Relationship

Bed-jacket and Water spangles share a common ancestor at the Kingdom level: Plantae. (Plants)

Conservation Status

Bed-jacket

LC — Least Concern

Water spangles

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Bed-jacket	Water spangles
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Bed-jacket

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.

Water spangles

Habitat

Typically found in moist, shaded forest floors and tropical canopies.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (South Africa), Asia (Sri Lanka), North America (Cuba, Dominican Republic, United States), and South America (Brazil, Colombia).

Bed-jacket

The Bed-jacket (Alectryon tomentosus) is a species in the genus Alectryon. It is currently classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.