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Definition of Genus Ceterach
1. Noun. Small genus of Old World ferns; superseded in some classification systems which place plants of this genus in e.g. genera Asplenium and Pleurosorus.
Generic synonyms: Fern Genus
Group relationships: Family Polypodiaceae, Polypodiaceae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Ceterach
Literary usage of Genus Ceterach
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On Molecular and Microscopic Science by Mary Somerville (1869)
"The genus Ceterach apparently belongs to that section of ferns which have a
vertical ring, and no indusium; but its affinities ally it closely with ..."
2. A History of British Ferns by Edward Newman (1854)
"... genus Ceterach: Smith, Hooker, Sadler, and Babington, in the genus Woodsia,
instituted by Dr. Robert Brown purposely to receive them : my own judgment, ..."
3. The British Ferns: Or, Coloured Figures and Descriptions, with the Needful ...by William Jackson Hooker by William Jackson Hooker (1861)
"Sori dorsal, roundish (in many exotic species ob- t In this section the genus
Ceterach has been generally placed, but as that is now found to possess a ..."
4. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1857)
"Similar venation however appears in the genus Ceterach (where however the involucre
is nearly obsolete), ..."