OPHIOGLOSSACEAE
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1213417E-FFCB-FFC9-CA08-F95F4D7EC1AE |
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Plazi |
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OPHIOGLOSSACEAE |
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V. OPHIOGLOSSACEAE View in CoL 12
Rhizomes short, fleshy, without scales. Leaves not circinate in bud, consisting of a sterile lamina and a fertile spike or panicle of spikes. Homosporous; sporangia large, thick-walled, sessile; without an annulus and opening by a transverse slit. Prothallus subterranean, tuber-like, saprophytic, with mycorrhiza.
Literature: R. Clausen, Mem. Torrey Club 19: 123 (1938).
Lamina linear to ovate, entire, with reticulate venation; fertile spike with sunk and coalescent sporangia 1. Ophioglossum Sterile and fertile parts of leaf both ± compound; veins dichotomous, free; sporangia free, subsessile 2. Botrychium
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