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Definition of Mohria
1. Noun. African terrestrial ferns.
Group relationships: Family Schizaeaceae, Schizaeaceae
Member holonyms: Mohria Caffrorum, Scented Fern
Generic synonyms: Fern Genus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mohria
Literary usage of Mohria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1843)
"can find no decisive character that will distinguish Copto- phyllum from mohria ;
their habit being the same, departing slightly from true ..."
2. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"mohria. In this genus the sporangia have a short stalk and sit upon the under
side of the sporophyll at nearly a right angle. They are consequently less ..."
3. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"... mohria would be anatomically the most advanced types. This harmonises with
the facts relating to spore-output: for on this ground also Lygodium would be ..."
4. The Structure & Development of the Mosses & Ferns (Archegoniatae). by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1895)
"... mohria the bundles of the stem form a cylindrical network like that of the
Polypodiaceae. The stem bundles are concentric, as are those of the petiole ..."
5. Ferns: British and Exotic by Edward Joseph Lowe (1868)
"GENUS I. mohria. SWARTZ. A SOLITARY species from Southern Africa represents this
genus, namely, the mohria ..."
6. A Natural History of New and Rare Ferns: Containing Species and Varieties by Edward Joseph Lowe (1868)
"A MOST beautiful variety of the mohria ... the upper part alone being fertile,
and much like the fertile frond of the normal form mohria ..."
7. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1862)
"The fertile fronds in the genus mohria arise separately from the rhizoma, and do
not differ in general appearance from the barren ones. ..."
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