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Blechnaceae

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Noun1.Blechnaceae - one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; includes genera Blechnum, Doodia, Sadleria, Stenochlaena, and Woodwardia
family Blechnaceae
fern family - families of ferns and fern allies
Filicales, order Filicales, order Polypodiales, Polypodiales - true (leptosporangiate) ferns
Blechnum, genus Blechnum - in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae; terrestrial ferns of cosmopolitan distribution mainly in southern hemisphere: hard ferns
genus Doodia, Doodia - in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae; small terrestrial colony-forming ferns of Australasia
genus Sadleria, Sadleria - low tree ferns with large fronds; in rain forests and on lava flows of Hawaiian Islands
genus Stenochlaena, Stenochlaena - large tropical ferns; some epiphytic climbers and some terrestrial bog ferns; Africa; Asia; Australasia
genus Woodwardia, Woodwardia - in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae: chain ferns
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However, they are useful in distinguishing Salpichlaena from other Blechnaceae genera because species of Salpichlaena have a poorly developed perispore (apparently one-layered in section) and a granulate-papillate-rugulated surface, whereas other Blechnaceae have a complex perispore that is psilate and generally folded.
Revision of the genus Salpichlaena J. Sm. (Blechnaceae, Pteridophyta) by Giudice, Gabriela E.; Luna, Maria L.; Carrion, Cristian; De La Sota, Elias R. / American Fern Journal
The following families of this order, treated in this paper, are Aspleniaceae (spleenworts), Azollaceae (mosquito ferns), Blechnaceae (chain ferns), and Dennstaedtiaceae (bracken and hay-scented ferns).
PTERIDOPHYTES OF NORTHEAST ALABAMA AND ADJACENT HIGHLANDS III: ... by Spaulding, Daniel D.; Ballard, J. Mark; Whetstone, R. David / Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science
BLECHNACEAE (Chain Fern Family) Woodwardia areolata (L.
PTERIDOPHYTES OF NORTHEAST ALABAMA AND ADJACENT HIGHLANDS by Spaulding, Daniel D.; Whetstone, R. David; Ballard, J. Mark / Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science
 
 
 
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