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Definition of Ophioglossum
1. Noun. The type genus of the fern family Ophioglossaceae.
Group relationships: Family Ophioglossaceae, Ophioglossaceae
Member holonyms: Adder's Tongue, Adder's Tongue Fern
Generic synonyms: Fern Genus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ophioglossum
Literary usage of Ophioglossum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Eusporangiatae: The Comparative Morphology of the Ophioglossaceae and by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1911)
"While the differentiation was inferior to that of Ophioglossum, ... 1 he
spermatocytes are only about half as large as those of Ophioglossum pendulum, ..."
2. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1916)
"... OF Ophioglossum VULGATUM NORMA E. PFEIFFER (WITH FOUR FIGURES) The gametophyte
of Ophioglossum was found ... The plants of Ophioglossum occur among the ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1904)
"... whose venation is not very different from that of Ophioglossum, and possibly
a further comparison might be made in the form of the leaf with the ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1901)
"It appears to be entirely without the sterile leaf-lobe, though the fertile spike
i< characteristically that of an Ophioglossum. ..."
5. The Structure and Development of Mosses and Ferns (Archegoniatae). by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1905)
"Ophioglossum beyond question shows the simplest type of sporangium of any of ...
In some species of Ophioglossum, too, the epidermis of the sporangium has ..."
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