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Definition of Sadleria

1. Noun. Low tree ferns with large fronds; in rain forests and on lava flows of Hawaiian Islands.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sadleria

Literary usage of Sadleria

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 William Jackson Hooker (1860)
"Sadleria, К If s. (FKE, GuN. FIL. ... I retain Sadleria as a conns rather on ... Sadleria pallida, Hook. et Arn. Bot. ..."

2. The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands by Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1913)
"Sadleria ferns, which like the open country, are numerous, with an occasional Cibotium (see plate XI) ; the trees are the same as in the rain forest, ..."

3. The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands by Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1913)
"Sadleria ferns follow after it or perhaps at the same time, but the former was always to be observed when hardly a grass or weed of any kind was visible. ..."

4. Enumeration of Hawaiian Plants by Horace Mann (1867)
"Sadleria CYATHEOIDES, Kaulf. Enum. Fil. p. 162; Hook. & Arn. 1. cp 107. ... Sadleria PALLIDA, Hook. & Arn. 1. c. pp. 75 & 107. Bl. pallidum, Brack. ..."

5. Pamphlets on Forestry in Hawaii (1911)
"ALULA—B rig ham ia in sign is. AMAU—Sadleria pallida. AMA'UMA'U—Sadleria ... APUU—Sadleria squarrosa. Au—Kadita acuminata. ..."

6. Proceedings by Pacific Science Association (1921)
"... the next most common fern is one belonging to the genus Sadleria. There are six species of this genus in Hawaii, all but one of which are endemic, ..."

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