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Definition of 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 Helminthostachys
Literary usage of Helminthostachys
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)
"Lang states that the young sporophyte of helminthostachys develops its first leaf
as a large ternate foliage leaf, and when I first examined the young ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1907)
"helminthostachys. Farmer & Freeman (On the Structure and Affinities of ...
As we have already seen, although the spike in helminthostachys arises apparently ..."
3. Pamphlets on Forestry in the Philippine Islands (1903)
"Family OPHIOGLOSSACEAE Genus helminthostachys ... helminthostachys zeylanica is
an herb with leaves which grow singly from an underground rhizome. ..."
4. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"In most species of Ophioglossum, as also in helminthostachys, ... In helminthostachys
Lang observed that abortive fertile spikes are commonly found, ..."
5. A Student's Text-book of Botany by Sydney Howard Vines (1896)
"... they are branched in Botrychium and helminthostachys, and produce no buds.
The leaves are developed close together at the apex of the rhizome, ..."
6. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"helminthostachys zeylanica. Sporophyll. Magnified. ... helminthostachys zeylanica
und ihre Beziehungen zn Ophioglossum und Botrychium, in Berichte der ..."
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