Glossary Details – French Guianan E-Flora Project

Glossary Details:

Title: Frond of a fern. Photo by S. A. Mori.

Description: Frond of Dryopteris marginalis based on Mori et al. 27517 from the Adirondacks, Warren County, New York. The frond consists of the blade and the stipe which are analagous with the blade and petiole of a flowering plants.

Term:

Frond

Definition:

Rerring to the leaves of ferns and the most conspicuous part of the sporophyte generation of this group of plants..