Pteris
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Pteridaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Large, mostly coarse ferns, growing in open sunny places, with variously divided leaves, and marginal linear continuous sori which occupy a slender or filiform receptacle, connecting the tips of free veins. Indusium double, the outer one conspicuous, membranous, formed of the reflexed margin of the leaf, the inner one delicate and obscure. Stipes continuous with the rootstock. [Greek name for ferns, from the fancied resemblance of their leaves to the wings of birds.] A few species of wide distribution. Type species: Pteris aquilina L.