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|accepted_name=Schizaea
|accepted_authority=Smith
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|place=5: 419, plate 9, fig. 9. 1793
|year=1793
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|common_names=Curly-grass fern
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Schizaeaceae;Schizaea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Schizaeaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Schizaea]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek schizein, split, i.e., split into narrow lobes
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism growth form or habitat;whole_organism growth form"><b>Plants </b>terrestrial.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="root coloration;root size or width;root arrangement;root pubescence"><b>Roots </b>blackish, very narrow, tangled, practically glabrous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="stem orientation"><b>Stems </b>upright to reclining;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="hair quantity;hair architecture;hair architecture or arrangement">hairs few celled, uniseriate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="leaf reproduction;leaf growth form;leaf architecture;leaf architecture;blade reproduction;blade quantity"><b>Leaves </b>all fertile or dimorphic with some sterile, lacking blades, mainly unbranched, long-petioled.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="blade reproduction;blade architecture or shape;blade shape;blade shape;blade architecture or shape;segment orientation;distal segment some measurement"><b>Fertile </b>blades folded and fistlike or pectinate, pinnate, segments (digits) arising along rachis on distal 3–10 mm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="leaf reproduction;leaf course;leaf course">sterile leaves straight or often curling.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="row quantity"><b>Sporangia </b>in 2 rows.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="hair coloration;hair texture;hair quantity"><b>Gametophytes </b>growing mixed with mosses, green (photosynthetic), delicately filamentous, lacking hairs.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="gametophyte arrangement;x chromosome quantity;x chromosome quantity;x chromosome quantity">x = 77, 94, 103.</span><!--

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|distribution=Mainly tropical
|discussion=<p>Species 10 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Schizaea
|author=Warren H. Wagner Jr.
|authority=Smith
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Schizaeaceae
|distribution=Mainly tropical
|reference=None
|publication title=
|publication year=1793
|special status=
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|genus=Schizaea
|blade architecture or shape=pinnate;folded
|blade quantity=lacking
|blade reproduction=fertile;sterile
|blade shape=pectinate;fist-like
|distal segment some measurement=3mm;10mm
|gametophyte arrangement=mixed
|hair architecture=celled
|hair architecture or arrangement=uniseriate
|hair coloration=green
|hair quantity=lacking;few
|hair texture=filamentous
|leaf architecture=long-petioled;unbranched
|leaf course=curling;straight
|leaf growth form=dimorphic
|leaf reproduction=sterile;fertile
|root arrangement=tangled
|root coloration=blackish
|root pubescence=glabrous
|root size or width=narrow
|row quantity=2
|segment orientation=arising
|stem orientation=upright;reclining
|whole_organism growth form=plant
|whole_organism growth form or habitat=terrestrial
|x chromosome quantity=103;94;77
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