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Tmesipteris Bernh.

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Tmesipteris Bernh., J. Bot. (Schrader) 1800(2): 131 (1801)
Tmesipteris Bernh.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
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Bernh.
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1801
131
ICN
Tmesipteris Bernh.
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Tmesipteris
From the Greek tmesis (a cutting, or incision), and pteris (a fern), a reference to the sporophyll being forked, as if cut into two.

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Tmesipteris

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Sporangia 2-celled, coriac.; cells elongate, pointed, constricted at junction, septum across narrowest diam., terminal on short lobes that bear two lf-like lobes just below insertion of sporangium. Plant us. epiphytic, with pend. axis. Lobes ∞, lf-like, flattened laterally, decurrent, irregularly two-rowed. Lower part of aerial axis with scale-like lobes or nearly naked. One polymorphic sp.: Australia, Tasmania, N.Z., Pacific Islands.

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Tmesipteris Bernh.
Australia
Tmesipteris Bernh.
French Polynesia
Tmesipteris Bernh.
New Caledonia
Tmesipteris Bernh.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Tmesipteris Bernh.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Tmesipteris Bernh.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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Etymology
From the Greek tmesis (a cutting, or incision), and pteris (a fern), a reference to the sporophyll being forked, as if cut into two.

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497c771a-4eaa-42b6-b73a-4933e88f2d95
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
25 February 2015
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