Ophioglossum
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
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Family
Ophioglossaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Genus Description - Perennial, and usually evanescent herbs, terrestrial or epiphytic. Rhizome short, usually erect, terminating in the erect exposed bud of the following season. Fronds erect or pendent, glabrous, somewhat fleshy, consisting of a common stalk, and separate sterile and fertile portions; sterile blade simple or palmately lobed, sessile or short-stalked, with reticulate venation, the primary areoles enclosing free veinlets and also sometimes secondary areoles. Sporophylls 1 or several simple, stalked spikes. Sporangia subglobose, coalescent in 2 marginal rows; spores globose, trilete, yellowish, thick-walled, the surface densely reticulate with fused minute cones and pits.