Pleuston
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Pleuston are plants (or bacteria) having the surface of (mainly stagnant) waters as their habitat. Examples include some cyanobacteria, the ferns Azolla and Salvinia and the seed plants Lemna, Wolffia, Pistia, Eichornia and Hydrocharis. The term pleuston was first used by Carl Schroeter in 1896.
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