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Definition of Osmundaceae
1. Noun. Large family of ferns widely distributed in temperate and tropical areas.
Member holonyms: Genus Osmunda, Genus Leptopteris, Leptopteris, Genus Todea, Todea
Generic synonyms: Fern Family
Group relationships: Filicales, Order Filicales, Order Polypodiales, Polypodiales
Lexicographical Neighbors of Osmundaceae
Literary usage of Osmundaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"Osmundaceae. THE Osmundaceae are represented by the living genera Osmunda and
Todea, while certain species of the latter are sometimes separated under the ..."
2. The Study of the Biology of Ferns by the Collodion Method: For Advanced and by George Francis Atkinson (1894)
"In the Schizaeaceae and Osmundaceae, the annulus being situated transversely to
the line of attachment of the sporangium with the leaf, both halves of ..."
3. A Student's Text-book of Botany by Sydney Howard Vines (1896)
"Order G. Osmundaceae. The shortly-stalked sporangia have a rudimentary annulus
consisting of a group of cells (Fig. 201 li r) just below the apex ..."
4. The Structure and Development of Mosses and Ferns (Archegoniatae). by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1905)
"The Osmundaceae are generally recognised as approaching most nearly the ...
They come nearest the Gleicheniaceae and Osmundaceae in the structure of the ..."
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