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Family name:	(none) Adiantaceae Aspidiaceae Aspleniaceae Athyriaceae Azollaceae Blechnaceae Dennstaedtiaceae Hymenophyllaceae Marsileaceae Ophioglossaceae Osmundaceae Polypodiaceae Pteridaceae Thelypteridaceae
Genus name:	(none) Adiantum Anogramma Asplenium Athyrium Azolla Blechnum Botrychium Cryptogramma Cystopteris Dryopteris Gymnocarpium Hymenophyllum Ophioglossum Oreopteris Osmunda Pilularia Polypodium Polystichum Pteridium Pteris Thelypteris Trichomanes Woodsia phegopteris
Pinnae:	(none) 1-2-pinnate 1-2-pinnate-pinnatisect 1-3-pinnate 1-pinnate 1-pinnate-pinnatisect 2-3-pinnate 2-3-pinnate-pinnatifid 2-4-pinnate-pinnatisect 2-pinnate 2-pinnate-pinnatifid 2-pinnate-pinnatisect 3-4 pinnate 3-pinnate 3-pinnate-pinnatifid no pinnae pinnatisect
Plant colour:	(none) blue green deep green glaucous green grass green grey-green light green mid-green olive green pale to yellow-green yellow green
Branched:	(none) False True
Indusium present:	(none) False True
Sori shape:	(none) continuous continuous round flask globose kidney linear linear-oblong lipped pocket oblong oblong-ovate oval ovoid round
Sori placement:	(none) along ends of vein along midrib along segment along vein close to vein edge of pinna segments first leaf of a lateral branch halfway rachis and margin in row either side of midrib inner part of pinnule on top part of leaf marginal mid-way segment and margin midleaf on lateral vein on lateral veins closer to margin on lateral veins closer to midrib on vein that runs into sinus pinna margin singly along lateral veins towards apex of segment upper leaf whole length pinnae
Rhizome description:	(none) branching branching clumps branching group of crowns colonial branched deep colonial creeping stolons short short branching short stocky branching single crown slender branching slender long slender short small tufted annual stout branched scaly tufted with few crowns wiry long
Rhizome scales:	(none) apex acute, pale grey-brown broadly triangular acute apex central dark brown stripe central red-brown stripe clathrate, brown, triangular colourless dark gold or reddish dark gold, very dense dark hair-like fringed with glands gold to red, dense gold, dark base hair-like lacking, hairs only linear-triangular pale brown long-pointed, mixture of sizes long-triangular pale brown lustrous, bluish grey lustrous, purple grey mixture of broad and narrow narrowly triangular narrowly triangular acute apex narrowly triangular lustrous narrowly triangular wispy apex narrowly triangular-lanceolate ovate colourless ovate-deltate, acuminate apex ovate-lanceolate pale gold, dark base sparse, broad, acuminate apex sparse, pale brown triangular-lanceolate very scaly stipe white or pale brown
Rhizome position:	(none) ascending clumping creeping erect semi-erect upright
Growth habit:	(none) arching lvs at intervals clumps of crowns cluster colonial, lvs erect compact tuft dense cluster dense tuft dense turf erect or pendulous tufted few erect lvs. floating irregular cluster large clonal colonies, lvs single loose clumps often deflexed loose tuft lvs clustered in massive clumps lvs densely clustered lvs hanging laxly at intervals lvs open cluster lvs shuttlecock lvs single lvs single, apical pinna long many crowns, tufted small tufted annual solitary, upright tufted upright lvs at intervals upright lvs intermittant
Homosporous:	(none) False True
Stipe description:	(none) 1/2 lf. len. no hairs or scales dark at base -> red-brown to green dark at base -> red-brown to green; wiry enlarged base glabrous glabrous; black -> red-brown glossy; thick wiry dark-brown; persistent glossy; thin wiry red-brown; persistent purple-black; scaly below scaly scaly at base shiny purple-brown slender base slender, brittle succulent very scaly
Seperate fertile leaves:	(none) False True
Fertile leaf shape:	(none) Spike deltate deltoid elliptic elliptic-lanceolate elliptic-lanceolate, erect elliptic-oblanceolate forked globose Sporocarp at base lanceolate lanceolate-linear linear linear-elliptic linear-lanceolate, pinnae horizontal no lamina oblong-lanceolate oblong-lanceolate to ovate-triangular ovate ovate-deltoid ovate-lanceolate ovate-oblong ovate-oval ovate-triangular triangular triangular-lanceolate trilobed,dissected and erect
Sterile leaf shape:	(none) elliptic elliptic-lanceolate, spreading filiform lanceolate,narrow pinnae linear-lanceolate linear-oblong ovate to elliptic-lanceolate ovate to ovate-lanceolate ovate-oblong trilobed and lax
Wintergreen:	(none) False True