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Definition of Genus ophioglossum

1. Noun. The type genus of the fern family Ophioglossaceae.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Ophioglossum

Literary usage of Genus ophioglossum

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

1. The Eusporangiatae: The Comparative Morphology of the Ophioglossaceae and by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1911)
"The genus Ophioglossum includes several species of the temperate regions of the whole world, and some of the species, like O. vulgatum, are very widespread; ..."

2. Biological Lectures Delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory of Wood's (1900)
"The nearest approach to this condition in the Pteridophytes is found in the peculiar genus Ophioglossum (Fig. 5, a). Here the spore- bearing part of the ..."

3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1907)
"... conclusions to be drawn from it are given in the present paper. THE GENERAL MORPHOLOGY OF THE SPOROPHYLL. OPHIOGLOSSUM. The genus Ophioglossum comprises ..."

4. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physical by Julius Sachs (1882)
"In the genus Ophioglossum both the outer sterile and the fertile branch of the leaf are unbranched or only lobed ; in the Brasilian O. palmatum the lamina ..."

5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1896)
"... among themselves shows that probably the genus Ophioglossum forms a series of increasing complexity, extending from such types as 0. ..."

6. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"... of the embryo sporophyte/' It would thus appear that the genus Ophioglossum shows almost equal variety in its embryogeny to that seen in Lycopodium. ..."

7. The Chicago Medical Journal and Examiner (1884)
"genus ophioglossum, O. vulgatum (Adder's-tongue Fern). Medical property: Vulnerary—used in ointments. Order Lycopodiaceae (Club-Moss Family), 1 genus, ..."

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