Ophioglossaceae Martinov

Details

Name scientific

Ophioglossaceae Martinov, Tekhno-Bot. Slovar 438 (1820)

Preferred name

Ophioglossaceae Martinov

Taxonomy reference

Smith, A.R.; Pryer, K.M.; Schuettpelz, E.; Korall, P.; Schneider, H.; Wolf, P.G. 2006: A classification for extant ferns. Taxon 55(3): 705–731.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

Martinov

Original authors

Martinov

Publication place

Martinov, I.I. 1820: Tekhno-Botanicheskīĭ Slovar'. St Petersburg.

Year published

1820

Publication page

438

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Ophioglossaceae Martinov

Type taxon

Ophioglossum L.

Taxonomic rank

family

Canonical form

Ophioglossaceae

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Polypodiopsida

Order

Ophioglossales

Family

Ophioglossaceae

Subordinates

Descriptions

Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Ophioglossaceae Martinov

Description

Sporangia in close double marginal rows, eusporangiate, without annulus, bivalvate; spores thick-walled. Prothallus subterranean, fleshy, without chlorophyll; rhizome short, erect; roots thick. Lvs on naked fleshy stalks bearing basal stipule-like appendages, us. solitary, divided into an adaxial fertile and an abaxial sterile seg., not circinate in vernation. Mainly terrestrial, perennial, fleshy herbs of wide distribution.