Lexic.us

Definition of Genus Gleichenia

1. Noun. Type genus of Gleicheniaceae: leptosporangiate ferns with sessile sporangia; South Africa to Malaysia and New Zealand.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Gleichenia

Literary usage of Genus Gleichenia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1874)
"As a genus Gleichenia is characterised by a creeping rhizome, fronds rigid, opaque, and several times dichotomously branched, ..."

2. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"There is considerable variation in size of the sporangia in the genus Gleichenia. Those species which have a small number of sporangia in the sorus, ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"The genus Gleichenia, mostly confined to the tropics, contains related species in South Africa, southern South America and New Zealand. CONIFERS. ..."

4. Maryland Geological Survey by Maryland Geological Survey (1916)
"The genus Gleichenia was a prominent one during the Cretaceous with many characteristic species, some with a wide range. The present species which ranges ..."

5. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"The existing tropical genus Gleichenia is represented by closely allied forms in the Cretaceous of Greenland, the Rajmahal group of the Indian ..."

6. Reports Dealing with the Systematic Geology and Paleontology of Maryland by Maryland Geological Survey (1916)
"The genus Gleichenia was a prominent one during the Cretaceous with many characteristic species, some with a wide range. The present species which ranges ..."

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