Gleichenia
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.
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Family
Gleicheniaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Terrestrial ferns; rhizomes creeping, elongate, slender, covered with scales and setose or pilose trichomes. Fronds monomorphic, elongate, with indeterminate growth, bifurcate, bipinnate, usually clambering; blades with secondary veins free, only once bifurcate; area of bifurcation covered with scales; rachis elongate, cylindrical, and rigid. Sori rounded, without an indusium, containing 3-6 sporangia. A pantropical and subtropical genus of about 110 species.