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Definition of Polypodiaceae
1. Noun. Ferns: a large family that in some classification systems has been subdivided into several families (including Aspleniaceae and Blechnaceae and Davalliaceae and Dennstaedtiaceae and Dryopteridaceae and Oleandraceae and Pteridaceae).
Generic synonyms: Fern Family
Group relationships: Filicales, Order Filicales, Order Polypodiales, Polypodiales
Member holonyms: Genus Polypodium, Polypodium, Aglaomorpha, Genus Aglaomorpha, Campyloneurum, Genus Campyloneurum, Drymoglossum, Genus Drymoglossum, Drynaria, Genus Drynaria, Genus Lecanopteris, Genus Microgramma, Microgramma, Genus Microsorium, Microsorium, Genus Phlebodium, Phlebodium, Genus Platycerium, Platycerium, Genus Pyrrosia, Pyrrosia, Genus Solanopteris, Solanopteris, Cyclophorus, Genus Cyclophorus, Ceterach, Genus Ceterach, Genus Phyllitis, Genus Scolopendrium, Phyllitis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polypodiaceae
Literary usage of Polypodiaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"Polypodiaceae. In the Polypodiaceae the prothallus has always unicellular ' hairs'
if hairs are present. Some of them are ' glandular hairs,' some of them ..."
2. The Philippine Journal of Science by Philippines Bureau of Science (1907)
"I. The Polypodiaceae of the Philippine Islands. II. Edible Philippine Fungi.
By Edwin B. Copeland, Ph. D. No. 29, 1904.—I- New or Noteworthy Philippine ..."
3. The Study of the Biology of Ferns by the Collodion Method: For Advanced and by George Francis Atkinson (1894)
"... sporangia arise from superficial cells on the margin of the leaf before the
differentiation of the epidermis. Structure of the Sporangia. Polypodiaceae. ..."
4. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter (1909)
"Polypodiaceae R. Br. FERN FAMILY Leafy plants; the leaves (fronds) often much
branched, circulate in vernation, rising from a rootstock. Spores of one kind, ..."
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