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Volume IV (1988) - Flora of New Zealand Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons
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Osmundaceae Martinov

OSMUNDACEAE

Rhizomes short, erect, lacking scales. Fronds large, 1-3-pinnate, with 2 stipular expansions at base of stipe protecting the young croziers. Sporangia scattered (not in sori), on abaxial surface of fronds, or in dense clusters on modified pinnae; indusia 0. Annulus a poorly differentiated subapical group of cells. Homosporous; spores with chlorophyll.

3 genera, 1 genus almost cosmopolitan, the others confined to southern Africa, New Guinea, Australasia and W. Polynesia.

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