Definition of Drymoglossum

1. Noun. Epiphytic ferns of Madagascar to tropical Asia and New Guinea.

Exact synonyms: Genus Drymoglossum
Generic synonyms: Fern Genus
Group relationships: Family Polypodiaceae, Polypodiaceae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Drymoglossum

Drummond's sign
Drummond light
Drummond lights
Drunken Fist
Drusilla
Druze
Dryadella
Dryas
Dryas octopetala
Dryden
Drydenesque
Drydenian
Drymarchon
Drymarchon corais
Drymarchon corais couperi
Drymoglossum
Drynaria
Drynaria rigidula
Dryopithecus
Dryopithecus Rudapithecus hungaricus
Dryopteridaceae
Dryopteris
Dryopteris dilatata
Dryopteris filix-mas
Dryopteris fragrans
Dryopteris goldiana
Dryopteris hexagonoptera
Dryopteris marginalis
Dryopteris noveboracensis
Dryopteris oreades

Literary usage of Drymoglossum

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

1. Species Filicum: Being Descriptions of the Known Ferns, Particularly of Such by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1864)
"Fil. t. 140, is probably some Vittaria with a trifid apex, and is only known from that figure. 10. drymoglossum, Pr. (HooK. GEN. FIL. TAB. LXXVIII. ..."

2. Index Filicum: a Synopsis, with Characters, of the Genera, Extensively by Thomas Moore (1861)
"Sot. ¡v. 66; A".-,'. Lin. xxiii. 252; Hook, Id. вел. Kl. 95. drymoglossum spathulatum, Preil, lent. Pier. 227; Fée, Vitt. 29; J. 8m. Book. Junru. Sot. >v. ..."

3. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1857)
"drymoglossum subcordatum, Fee, Gen. Ml. t. 9 A. f. 1. ... very different Fern from the drymoglossum piloselloides of Presl, being much smaller, ..."

4. The Philippine Journal of Science by Philippines Bureau of Science (1908)
"Sarawak, Bongo Mountain, February, 1905, leg. Brooks tG Hewitt 20. By the usual definition this would be a drymoglossum, but that genus properly construed ..."

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