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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Lygodium Sw.

LYGODIUM Swartz, 1801

Sporangia subtended by an indusium-like outgrowth, marginal in biseriate spikes; spores tetrahedral. Rhachis of indefinite growth, high-climbing, twining; secondary rhachides very short, each bearing a pair of compound pinnae. Fertile pinnae copiously divided. About 40, mainly tropical to subtropical, spp. The N.Z. sp. is endemic.

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