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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Polypodiaceae J.Presl & C.Presl

POLYPODIACEAE

Sori exindusiate, with or without peltate paraphyses, round to elongate, sts fused to form coenosori; sporangia stalked; annulus incomplete, dehiscing by transverse slit. Spores 32-16, bilateral, without perispore. Rhizome creeping, solenostelic to dictyostelic, paleate. Fronds mostly articulate with rhizome, pinnate to irregularly lobed or simple; veins reticulate, us. with free included veinlets. Prothallus cordate, green, flat. About 25 genera of wide distribution.

Key

1
Lamina densely clad below in felted stellate paleae
1. PYRROSIA
Lamina glabr. on both surfaces
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Veins obscured, anastomoses without included veinlets; lamina undivided; stipes not articulated to rhizome
2. ANARTHROPTERIS
Veins us. evident, anastomoses with included veinlets; mostly some laminae lobed; stipes articulated to rhizome
3. PHYMATODES
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