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Ferns Flashcards

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Euphyllophytes

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  • Leaves called euphylls (aka megaphylls)
  • several strands of vascular tissue
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FAMILY: ASPLENIACEAE

GENUS: ASPLENIUM

COMMON: Spleenwort

  • spores in kidney or linear shaped sori
  • indusia present
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FAMILY: ASPLENIACEAE

GENUS: ASPLENIUM

COMMON: Walking Fern

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FAMILY: DENNSTAEDTIACEAE

GENUS: PTERIDIUM

COMMON: Bracken Fern

-marginal sori covered by false indusium

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FAMILY: DENNSTAEDTIACEAE

GENUS: PTERIDIUM

COMMON: Hay-scented Fern

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FAMILY: DRYOPTERIDACEAE

GENUS: DRYOPTERIS

COMMON: Wood Fern

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FAMILY: DRYOPTERIDACEAE

GENUS: DRYOPTERIS

COMMON: Goldie’s Wood Fern

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FAMILY: DRYOPTERIDACEAE
GENUS: POLYSTICHUM

COMMON: Christmas Fern

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FAMILY: EQUIETACEAE

GENUS: EQUISETUM

COMMON: Scouring Rush

  • homospores possess chloroplasts
  • reduced leaves in whorls at each node
  • 10 sporangia = 1 sporangiophore

-sporangiophores make 1 terminal strobilus

-spores have 4 elators that dry and project spores

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FAMILY: EQUIETACEAE

GENUS: EQUISETUM

COMMON: Horsetail

  • homospores possess chloroplasts
  • reduced leaves in whorls at each node
  • 10 sporangia = 1 sporangiophore
  • sporangiophores make 1 terminal strobilus
  • spores have 4 elators that dry and project spores
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FAMILY: LYGODIACEAE

GENUS: LYGODIUM

COMMON: Climbing Fern

  • vines or grass-like
  • dimorphic leaves
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FAMILY: ONOCLEACEAE

GENUS: ONOCLEA

COMMON: Sensitive Fern

  • dimorphic leaves: vegetative + reproductive
  • each sorus completely enclosed in leafy material
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FAMILY: OPHIOGLOSSACEAE

GENUS: OPHIOGLOSSUM

COMMON: Adder’s Tongue

  • dimorphic leaves
  • sporangia in upright fertile spike
  • most chromosomes (n=621)
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FAMILY: OPHIOGLOSSACEAE

GENUS: BOTRYPUS

COMMON: Rattlesnake Fern

-sporangia in upright fertile region

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FAMILY: OSMUNDACEAE

GENUS: OSMUNDASTRUM

COMMON: Cinnamon Fern

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FAMILY: OSMUNDACEAE
GENUS: OSMUNDA

COMMON: Interrupted Fern

-dimorphism on a single leaf

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FAMILY: POLYPODIACEAE

GENUS: POLYPODIUM

COMMON: Rock Polypody

  • mound-like sorus
  • no indusia
  • fronds simple and lobed
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FAMILY: PTERIDACEAE

GENUS: ADIANTUM
COMMON: Maidenhair Fern

-sori along veins with false indusia

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