familySchizaeaceae
genusSchizaea
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Schizaea
5: 419, plate 9, fig. 9. 1793.
Common names: Curly-grass fern
Etymology: Greek schizein, split, i.e., split into narrow lobes
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 2.
| Taxon | Illustrator ⠉ | |
|---|---|---|
 | Schizaea pusilla Dicranopteris flexuosa Actinostachys pennula | John Myers John Myers John Myers |
Plants terrestrial. Roots blackish, very narrow, tangled, practically glabrous. Stems upright to reclining; hairs few celled, uniseriate. Leaves all fertile or dimorphic with some sterile, lacking blades, mainly unbranched, long-petioled. Fertile blades folded and fistlike or pectinate, pinnate, segments (digits) arising along rachis on distal 3–10 mm; sterile leaves straight or often curling. Sporangia in 2 rows. Gametophytes growing mixed with mosses, green (photosynthetic), delicately filamentous, lacking hairs. x = 77, 94, 103.
Distribution
Mainly tropical
Discussion
Species 10 (1 in the flora).
Selected References
None.
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subapical +
radiating +
apical +
lacking +
reduced;tiny +
long +
thickened +
Curly-grass fern +
Mainly tropical +
fan--shaped +
mixed +
filamentous +
celled +
uniseriate +
green +
stiff +
filamentous +
dimorphic +
revolute +
dichotomous +
much longer +
rudimentary +
fertile +
1793 +
1;4 +
tangled +
blackish +
glabrous +
numerous +
narrow +
arising +
simple +
webbed +
monolete +
bilateral +
upright;reclining +
1;3 +
Schizaea +
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