Definition of Schizaea

1. Noun. Type genus of the Schizaeaceae cosmopolitan especially in tropics; small leptosporangiate ferns: curly grass fern.

Exact synonyms: Genus Schizaea
Group relationships: Family Schizaeaceae, Schizaeaceae
Member holonyms: Curly Grass, Curly Grass Fern, Schizaea Pusilla
Generic synonyms: Fern Genus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Schizaea

Schinus molle
Schinus terebinthifolius
Schiotz tonometer
Schirmer test
Schistosoma bovis
Schistosoma indicum
Schistosoma intercalatum
Schistosoma malayensis
Schistosoma mattheei
Schistosoma mekongi
Schistosoma protease
Schistosoma spindale
Schistosomiasis intercalatum
Schizachyrium
Schizachyrium scoparium
Schizaea (current term)
Schizaea pusilla
Schizaeaceae
Schizopetalon walkeri
Schizophragma
Schizophragma hydrangeoides
Schizophyceae
Schizophyta
Schizosaccharomyces pombe
Schizosaccharomyces pombe DNA endonuclease
Schizosaccharomycetaceae
Schizotrypanum cruzi
Schlamperei
Schlatter
Schlatter-Osgood disease

Literary usage of Schizaea

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1904)
"Goebel has called attention to the similarity between the young sporocarp of Marsilia and the fertile leaf-segment of Schizaea. Johnson's studies on the ..."

2. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"... less markedly dorsiventral than in other genera, and the point of rupture I found to be directed always towards the margin of the leaf. Schizaea. ..."

3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Schizaea JE Smith, Mem. Acad. Turin 5: 419. />/. 19. f.. 1793. Mostly small plants, with erect or ... Type species: Schizaea dichotoma (L.) JE Smith. i. ..."

4. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1862)
"But we fear that this view of the structure of the fertile frond of Schizaea would find few to support it ; and, as we cannot apply the other view, ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... mostly tropical species, segregated into the genera Schizaea, Lygodium, ... In the Upper Cretaceous petrified sporangia of the Schizaea type have been ..."

6. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"The radial type of construction appears in Schizaea, ... In Schizaea there is a very marked and repeated dichotomy (Fig. 300): the branches may be more or ..."

7. The Philippine Journal of Science by Philippines Bureau of Science (1907)
"Schizaea dichotoma (L.) Smith. On ridges in humid forests at 250 m. alt. (No. ... Schizaea digitata (Linn.) Smith. In ridge forests at 4.50 m. alt. (No. ..."

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