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Definition of Genus hymenophyllum

1. Noun. Type genus of the Hymenophyllaceae: filmy ferns.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Hymenophyllum

Literary usage of Genus hymenophyllum

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

1. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1906)
"These sori are flattened in the genus Hymenophyllum (fig. 34, A) and have the form of a two- valved capsule. In the genus Trichomanes the sporangia are ..."

2. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"... and that there is greater uniformity in the genus Hymenophyllum than in Trichomanes. In the former genus the usual characters of the larger types are, ..."

3. The Geological History of Plants by John William Dawson (1888)
"... but divided at the margin into one-nerved lobes, in the manner of the modern genus Hymenophyllum. 12. ..."

4. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1899)
"In Species Plantarum, Linnaeus gives eleven species of Trichomanes, of which six arc American, but includes besides filmy ferns of the genus Hymenophyllum, ..."

5. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"... very similar to those of the modern living genus Hymenophyllum, are found in the Devonian rocks of Europe. It is also known in the coal-measure flora of ..."

6. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"... are represented by one species in the Upper Eocene of Provence ; while Schimper has referred to the type genus Hymenophyllum a Carboniferous fern. ..."

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