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Definition of Genus helminthostachys
1. Noun. One species: terrestrial fern of southeastern Asia and Australia.
Group relationships: Family Ophioglossaceae, Ophioglossaceae
Member holonyms: Flowering Fern, Helminthostachys Zeylanica
Generic synonyms: Fern Genus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Helminthostachys
Literary usage of Genus helminthostachys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Canadian Institute by Canadian Institute (1849-1914). (1899)
"... as occurring in the interesting genus Helminthostachys. ... and the genus
Helminthostachys, which were described by Van Tieghem in his essay on ..."
2. The Eusporangiatae: The Comparative Morphology of the Ophioglossaceae and by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1911)
"The third genus, Helminthostachys, with a single described species, H. zeylanica,
is a not uncommon fern of the lowland forests of the Indo-Malayan region. ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1907)
"A similar condition to that found in Botrychium lanuginosum prevails in the third
genus, Helminthostachys (Fig. 7), a mono- typic genus of the Indo-Malayan ..."
4. Pamphlets on Forestry in the Philippine Islands (1903)
"... distributed in the Archipelago and is a characteristic plant on gravel bars
and banks of swift streams. Family OPHIOGLOSSACEAE Genus HELMINTHOSTACHYS ..."
5. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"In the third genus, Helminthostachys, the youngest stages have not yet been seen :
but the old embryo resembles that of Botrychium virgi- ..."
6. Report Upon United States Geographical Surveys West of the One Hundredth by George Montague Wheeler, Andrew Atkinson Humphreys, Horatio Gouverneur Wright (1878)
"Besides Botrychium and Ophioglossum, this order contains one other genus,
Helminthostachys, represented by a single species found in India, Ceylon, ..."
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