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Definition of Dicksonia
1. Noun. Tree ferns of temperate Australasia having bipinnatifid or tripinnatifid fronds and usually marginal sori; in some classification systems placed in family Cyatheaceae.
Generic synonyms: Fern Genus
Group relationships: Dicksoniaceae, Family Dicksoniaceae
Member holonyms: Dicksonia Antarctica, Soft Tree Fern
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dicksonia
| Dicotyledonae Dicotyledones Dicranaceae Dicranales Dicranopteris Dicranum Dicrostonyx Dicrostonyx hudsonius Dictamnus alba Dictaphone | Dictyophera |
Literary usage of Dicksonia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the Study of Cryptogamous Plants: In Letters by Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel (1807)
"dicksonia. THE fructification of this genus being disposed in round spots, Linnaeus
added ... By this marginal situation dicksonia is distinct from Cyathea, ..."
2. Index Filicum: a Synopsis, with Characters, of the Genera, Extensively by Thomas Moore (1861)
"dicksonia apiifolia, 8w. FI. Ind. Осе. iii. 1697; Id. Syn. Fil. 137 j Willd. Sp.
PI. v. ... Kze. dicksonia cicutaria, ß. Hook. Sp. FU. i. 76. dicksonia ..."
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