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Pellaea

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Noun1.Pellaea - genus of chiefly small rock-loving ferns; in some classification systems it is placed in the family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae
genus Pellaea
fern genus - genera of ferns and fern allies
family Pteridaceae, Pteridaceae - one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; Pteridaceae is itself in turn sometimes further subdivided
cliff brake, cliff-brake, rock brake - any of several small lithophytic ferns of tropical and warm temperate regions
coffee fern, Pellaea andromedifolia - evergreen fern of California and Baja California
button fern, Pellaea rotundifolia - fern of New Zealand and Australia having trailing fronds with dark green buttonlike leaflets
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Ferns in the genus Pellaea are abundant and cytologically diverse in California, and these became Jerry's model system for many future studies involving taxonomic relationships, population genetics, formation of polyploids, and the contributions of apogamous taxa to fern evolution (Gastony and Gottlieb, 1982, 1985; Gastony, 1988, 1990, 1991, Gastony and Windham, 1989).
A Brief History of Gerald J. Gastony's Botanical Career by Barker, Michael S.; Yatskievych, George / American Fern Journal
Rachis deep brown to black; leaves pinnate to bipinnate; terminal leaflets usually less than 4 cm long: Pellaea 1.
Pteridophytes of Northeast Alabama and adjacent highlands v: ... by Spaulding, Daniel D.; Ballard, J. Mark; Whetstone, R. David / Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science
1992), to documenting tetrasomic inheritance and gene silencing in polyploids (Gastony, 1990, 1991), and maternal inheritance of plastids in Pellaea Link (Gastony and Yatskievych, 1992).
Using Plastid and Nuclear DNA Sequences to Redraw Generic Boundaries ... by Windham, Michael D.; Huiet, Layne; Schuettpelz, Eric; Grusz, Amanda L.; Rothfels, Carl; Beck, James; / American Fern Journal
 
 
 
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