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

MARATTIA Swartz, 1788

Mature caudex massive, subglobose; fronds 2-3-pinnate, veins free. Sorus of a double row of sporangia fused into a synangium, oblong, at or near the tips of the veins. Synangium and sporangia dehiscing by a longitudinal slit.

About 60 spp., mainly tropical and subtropical. The N.Z. sp. is said to occur also in Australia, Polynesia, Malaya, Philippine Is, India and S. Africa.

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