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Definition of Genus acrostichum
1. Noun. In some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae.
Generic synonyms: Fern Genus
Group relationships: Family Pteridaceae, Pteridaceae
Member holonyms: Acrostichum Aureum, Golden Fern, Leather Fern
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Acrostichum
Literary usage of Genus acrostichum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Historia filicum: An Exposition of the Nature, Number and Organography of by John Smith (1875)
"The genus Acrostichum, as here restricted, consists of only one species, namely, A.
aureum, which is found in most Fern regions throughout the tropics of ..."
2. Contributions to the Paleobotany of Peru, Bolivia and Chile: Five Papers by Edward Wilber Berry (1922)
"The Modern species are numerous (the genus Acrostichum of authors) and are wide
spread in rain forest regions of the tropics and subtropics. ..."
3. A History of British Ferns by Edward Newman (1854)
"genus Acrostichum: Withering, Sowerby, Willdenow, Sprengel, Schkuhr, Wahlenberg,
and Presl, in the genus Polypodium: Lamarck and ..."
4. An Introduction to the Study of Cryptogamous Plants: In Letters by Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel (1807)
"... as the capsules originally appear disposed in a line, and covered with an
involucre which is wanting in the genus Acrostichum. Acrost. viviparum L. is a ..."
5. Timehri: The Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of by Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana (1885)
"Botanists who are opposed to the multiplication of generic names on slight grounds
include under the genus Acrostichum all ferns with naked amorphous sori, ..."
6. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1844)
"Plants are subject to a remarkable geographical distribution, which it is very
interesting to trace out. The remarkable section of the genus Acrostichum, ..."
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