Lexic.us

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 Small genus of Old World ferns; superseded in some classification systems which place plants of this genus in e.g. genera Asplenium and Pleurosorus.

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), ..."

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