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Leptosporangiate fern

Index Leptosporangiate fern

Leptosporangiate ferns are the largest group of living ferns, including some 11000 species worldwide. [1]

76 relations: Adiantaceae, Anemiaceae, Annulus (botany), Aspleniaceae, Athyrioideae, Azolla, Blechnoideae, Botrychium, Ceratopteridaceae, Cibotium, Cryptogrammaceae, Culcita (plant), Cyatheaceae, Cyatheales, Cystodium sorbifolium, Cystopteridaceae, Davalliaceae, Dennstaedtiaceae, Dicksoniaceae, Didymochlaena truncatula, Diplaziopsidaceae, Dipteridaceae, Dryopteridaceae, Dryopteridoideae, Elaphoglossaceae, Epiphyte, Equisetaceae, Equisetopsida, Equisetum, Eupolypods I, Eupolypods II, Eusporangiate fern, Fern, Gleicheniaceae, Gleicheniales, Grammitidoideae, Hemidictyum, Hymenophyllaceae, Hypodematiaceae, Lindsaeaceae, Lomariopsidaceae, Lonchitis, Loxsomataceae, Lygodium, Marattiaceae, Marattiidae, Marsileaceae, Matoniaceae, Metaxya, Nephrolepis, ..., Oleandra, Oleandraceae, Onocleaceae, Osmundaceae, Plagiogyria, Platyzoma, Polypodiaceae, Polypodiales, Polypodiidae (plant), Polypodioideae, Psilotopsida, Psilotum, Pteridaceae, Pteridales, Rhachidosorus, Saccolomataceae, Salviniaceae, Salviniales, Schizaeaceae, Schizaeales, Sorus, Sporangium, Tectariaceae, Thelypteridaceae, Thyrsopteris, Woodsiaceae. Expand index (26 more) »

Adiantaceae

Adiantaceae (as construed here, sensu stricto, not a synonym of Pteridaceae) is a family of ferns in the order Pteridales.

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Anemiaceae

Anemiaceae is a family of ferns in the order Schizaeales.

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Annulus (botany)

An annulus in botany is an arc or a ring of specialized cells on the sporangium.

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Aspleniaceae

The Aspleniaceae (spleenworts) is a family of ferns, included in the order Polypodiales or in some classifications as the only family in the order Aspleniales.

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Athyrioideae

Athyrioideae is a subfamily of terrestrial ferns, with a cosmopolitan distribution.

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Azolla

Azolla (mosquito fern, duckweed fern, fairy moss, water fern) is a genus of seven species of aquatic ferns in the family Salviniaceae.

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Blechnoideae

Blechnoideae is a subfamily of between 240 and 260 species of ferns, with a cosmopolitan distribution.

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Botrychium

Botrychium is a genus of ferns, seedless vascular plants in the family Ophioglossaceae.

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Ceratopteridaceae

Ceratopteridaceae is an improper family name for the clade that is now known to include the two genera Ceratopteris and Acrostichum.

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Cibotium

Cibotium (from the Greek kibootion, meaning chest or box) is a genus of 11 species of tropical tree fern—subject to much confusion and revision—distributed fairly narrowly in Hawaiokinai (four species, plus a hybrid, collectively known as hāpuu), Southeast Asia (five species), and the cloud forests of Central America and Mexico (two species).

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Cryptogrammaceae

Cryptogrammaceae is a small family of ferns, which appears to be somewhat isolated from the rest of the Pteridales.

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Culcita (plant)

Culcita is a genus of ferns, the only genus in the family Culcitaceae.

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Cyatheaceae

The Cyatheaceae are the scaly tree fern family and include the world's tallest tree ferns, which reach heights up to 20 m. They are also very ancient plants, appearing in the fossil record in the late Jurassic, though the modern genera likely appeared in the Cenozoic.

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Cyatheales

The order Cyatheales, which includes the tree ferns, is a taxonomic division of the fern class, Polypodiopsida.

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Cystodium sorbifolium

Cystodium is a fern genus in its own Cystodiaceae family.

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Cystopteridaceae

Cystopteridaceae are a family of ferns in the eupolypods II clade of the order Polypodiales, class Polypodiopsida.

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Davalliaceae

Davalliaceae is a family of ferns in the order Polypodiales.

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Dennstaedtiaceae

Dennstaedtiaceae is one of fifteen families in the order Polypodiales, the most derived families within monilophytes (ferns).

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Dicksoniaceae

The Dicksoniaceae is a family of tropical, subtropical and warm temperate ferns.

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Didymochlaena truncatula

Didymochlaena truncatula is a species of plant in the Hypodematiaceae family.

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Diplaziopsidaceae

Diplaziopsidaceae is a family of ferns in the order Polypodiales, class Polypodiopsida.

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Dipteridaceae

The Dipteridaceae is a family of ferns in the Gleicheniales order of the Polypodiopsida class.

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Dryopteridaceae

The Dryopteridaceae are a family of leptosporangiate ferns in the order Polypodiales.

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Dryopteridoideae

Dryopteridoideae is one of the two subfamilies of the Dryopteridaceae family of ferns.

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Elaphoglossaceae

The Elaphoglossaceae is a family of ferns that includes a clade that has been previously distributed among other families or groups.

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Epiphyte

An epiphyte is an organism that grows on the surface of a plant and derives its moisture and nutrients from the air, rain, water (in marine environments) or from debris accumulating around it.

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Equisetaceae

Equisetaceae, sometimes called the horsetail family, is the only extant family of the order Equisetales, with one surviving genus, Equisetum, which comprises about twenty species.

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Equisetopsida

Equisetopsida, or Sphenopsida, is a class of vascular plants with a fossil record going back to the Devonian.

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Equisetum

Equisetum (horsetail, snake grass, puzzlegrass) is the only living genus in Equisetaceae, a family of vascular plants that reproduce by spores rather than seeds.

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Eupolypods I

Eupolypods I is a clade of ferns in the order Polypodiales, class Polypodiopsida.

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Eupolypods II

Eupolypods II is a clade of ferns in the order Polypodiales, under the class Polypodiopsida.

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Eusporangiate fern

Eusporangiate ferns are vascular spore plants, whose sporangia arise from several epidermal cells and not from a single cell as in leptosporangiate ferns.

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Fern

A fern is a member of a group of vascular plants that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers.

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Gleicheniaceae

The forked ferns are the family Gleicheniaceae, which includes six genera and 165 known species.

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Gleicheniales

The ferns of the order Gleicheniales are – like all ferns and the related horsetails – sometimes placed in an infradivision Monilophytes of subdivision Euphyllophytina, allowing for more precise phylogenetic arrangement of the tracheophytes.

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Grammitidoideae

Grammitidoideae is a subfamily of the fern family Polypodiaceae, whose members are informally known as grammitids.

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Hemidictyum

Hemidictyaceae is a family of ferns in the order Polypodiales.

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Hymenophyllaceae

The Hymenophyllaceae (filmy ferns and bristle ferns) are a family of two to nine genera (depending on classification system) Phytotaxa 19: 7-54.

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Hypodematiaceae

Hypodematiaceae is a family of ferns in the order Polypodiales.

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Lindsaeaceae

Lindsaeaceae is a pantropical family of ferns in the order Polypodiales.

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Lomariopsidaceae

The Lomariopsidaceae is a family of ferns with a largely tropical distribution.

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Lonchitis

Lonchitis is a neotropical genus of ferns.

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Loxsomataceae

The Loxsomataceae are a family of ferns in the order Cyatheales.

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Lygodium

Lygodium (climbing fern) is a genus of about 40 species of ferns, native to tropical regions across the world, with a few temperate species in eastern Asia and eastern North America.

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Marattiaceae

The order Marattiales is a group of pteridophyta containing the single family, Marattiaceae.

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Marattiidae

Marattiidae is a subclass of class Polypodiopsida (ferns).

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Marsileaceae

The Marsileaceae are a small family of heterosporous aquatic and semi-aquatic ferns, though at first sight they do not physically resemble other ferns.

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Matoniaceae

Matoniaceae is one of the three families of ferns in the Gleicheniales order of the Polypodiopsida class.

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Metaxya

The Metaxyaceae is a neotropical family of ferns in the order Cyatheales containing a single genus, Metaxya.

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Nephrolepis

Nephrolepis is a genus of about 30 species of ferns in the family Nephrolepidaceae (or Dryopteridaceae in some classifications).

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Oleandra

Oleandra is a genus of fern in family Oleandraceae.

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Oleandraceae

Oleandraceae is a family of ferns, now restricted to the genus Oleandra.

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Onocleaceae

Onocleaceae is a small family of terrestrial ferns in the Polypodiales order of the Polypodiopsida class.

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Osmundaceae

The Osmundaceae (royal fern family) is a family of four to six extant genera and 18–25 known species.

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Plagiogyria

Plagiogyria is a genus of ferns, the only genus in family Plagiogyriaceae.

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Platyzoma

Platyzoma microphyllum, the sole species in genus Platyzoma, is a fern native to northern Australia.

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Polypodiaceae

Polypodiaceae is a family of polypod ferns, which includes more than 60 genera divided into several tribes and containing around 1,000 species.

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Polypodiales

The order Polypodiales encompasses the major lineages of polypod ferns, which comprise more than 80% of today's fern species.

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Polypodiidae (plant)

Polypodiidae is a subclass of Polypodiopsida (ferns), and of the four subclasses comprises the vast number of species.

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Polypodioideae

Polypodioideae is a subfamily belonging to the fern family Polypodiaceae.

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Psilotopsida

Psilotopsida is a class of ferns or fern-like plants, considered to be one of the three classes of eusporangiate ferns.

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Psilotum

Psilotum is a genus of fern-like vascular plants, commonly known as whisk ferns.

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Pteridaceae

Pteridaceae is a family of ferns in the order Polypodiales., including some 1150 known species in ca 45 genera (depending on taxonomic opinions), divided over five subfamilies.

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Pteridales

The Pteridales are ferns that have their sori in linear strips under the edge of the leaf tissue, usually with the edge of the lamina reflexed over.

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Rhachidosorus

Rhachidosorus is a genus of ferns in the order Polypodiales.

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Saccolomataceae

Saccolomataceae is a family of ferns in the order Polypodiales.

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Salviniaceae

Salviniaceae (or formerly Salviniaceæ) is a family of heterosporous ferns in the order Salviniales.

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Salviniales

The order Salviniales (formerly known as the Hydropteridales and including the former Marsileales) is an order of ferns in the class Polypodiopsida.

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Schizaeaceae

Schizaeaceae is a family of plants with three subfamilies, Anemioideae, Lygodioideae and Schizaeoideae (sometimes treated as families), with a total of four genera and about 190 species.

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Schizaeales

Schizaeales is an order of fern (class Pteridopsida).

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Sorus

A sorus (pl. sori) is a cluster of sporangia (structures producing and containing spores) in ferns and fungi.

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Sporangium

A sporangium (pl., sporangia) (modern Latin, from Greek σπόρος (sporos) ‘spore’ + αγγείον (angeion) ‘vessel’) is an enclosure in which spores are formed.

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Tectariaceae

Tectariaceae is a family of Leptosporangiate ferns in the order Polypodiales.

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Thelypteridaceae

Thelypteridaceae is a family of about 900 species of ferns in the eupolypods II clade of the order Polypodiales, in the class Polypodiopsida.

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Thyrsopteris

Thyrsopteris is a predominant plant genus in the Juan Fernandez Archipelago.

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Woodsiaceae

The Woodsiaceae or cliff ferns is a family of ferns in the Eupolypods II clade of the order Polypodiales, in the class Polypodiopsida.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptosporangiate_fern

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