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Definition of Genus Todea
1. Noun. A genus of delicate ferns belonging to the family Osmundaceae.
Group relationships: Family Osmundaceae, Osmundaceae
Member holonyms: Crepe Fern, King Fern, Todea Barbara
Generic synonyms: Fern Genus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Todea
Literary usage of Genus Todea
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)
"Amongst the Osmundaceae some species of the genus Todea—T. pellucida, T. superba,
and their allies which form the section ..."
2. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"... filmy" 'character is the most salient vegetative feature, and that this has
carried with it, as in the genus Todea, a decrease in size of the sporangia, ..."
3. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain). (1895)
"... genus Todea; and no doubt they will be more so when the fact becomes generally
recognised, that Todea superba (the queen of the genus) is so nearly ..."
4. Proceedings by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1883)
"... I think the character of the fruit points to affinities with the Osmundaceae,
and it is probably most closely related to the genus Todea. ..."
5. On Molecular and Microscopic Science by Mary Somerville (1869)
"... section of the genus Todea, almost peculiar to New Zealand, has beautiful
transparent fronds, with naked sporangia placed upon the veins, forming very ..."
6. The Fossil Plants of the Devonian and Upper Silurian Formations of Canada by Geological Survey of Canada, John William Dawson (1871)
"... shows minute rounded spore-cases comparable with those of the modern genus
Todea, which the fern itself also closely resembles. ..."
7. Geological record (1877)
"The species are chiefly ferns; and in this group are remains referred to the
existing genus Todea. ..."
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