Definition of Genus goniopteris

1. Noun. Terrestrial ferns of Florida and West Indies to Central and South America.

Exact synonyms: Goniopteris
Generic synonyms: Fern Genus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Goniopteris

genus Globigerina
genus Gloriosa
genus Glossina
genus Glossodia
genus Glossopsitta
genus Gloxinia
genus Glyceria
genus Glycine
genus Glycyrrhiza
genus Gnaphalium
genus Gnetum
genus Gobiesox
genus Gobio
genus Gomphotherium
genus Gomphrena
genus Goniopteris
genus Gonorhynchus
genus Goodyera
genus Gopherus
genus Gorgonocephalus
genus Gorilla
genus Gossypium
genus Gracula
genus Grammatophyllum
genus Grampus
genus Graptophyllum
genus Grevillea
genus Grewia
genus Grias
genus Grindelia

Literary usage of Genus goniopteris

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

1. Contributions to the Paleobotany of Peru, Bolivia and Chile: Five Papers by Edward Wilber Berry (1922)
"The genus Goniopteris comprises about 60 existing species, largely confined to the American tropics, but said to be sparingly represented in Africa, ..."

2. Historia filicum: An Exposition of the Nature, Number and Organography of by John Smith (1875)
"... closely allied in natural habit and organisation are placed in separate tribes. For example, the genus Goniopteris has naked sori, while its congener ..."

3. The Permian Or Upper Carboniferous Flora of West Virginia and S.W. Pennsylvania by William Morris Fontaine, Israel Charles White, Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania (1880)
"The plants of the genus Goniopteris, as limited by Schim- per, are among the most characteristic ones of the Upper Carboniferous. ..."

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