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Pteridineae

plant suborder
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  • tree fern
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    / Annotated classification

    Suborder Pteridineae Family Pteridaceae Plants in soil, on rocks, epiphytic or aquatic; rhizomes short- to long-creeping or erect, usually scaly; leaves entire to highly divided, pinnately or, less commonly, palmately or pedately so, occasionally the vegetative and fertile leaves dimorphic (the fertile ones with reduced laminar…

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    Suborder Pteridineae Family Pteridaceae Plants in soil, on rocks, epiphytic or aquatic; rhizomes short- to long-creeping or erect, usually scaly; leaves entire to highly divided, pinnately or, less commonly, palmately or pedately so, occasionally the vegetative and fertile leaves dimorphic (the fertile ones with reduced laminar…

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