Definition of Order Filicales

1. Noun. True (leptosporangiate) ferns.

Exact synonyms: Filicales, Order Polypodiales, Polypodiales
Generic synonyms: Plant Order
Member holonyms: Family Hymenophyllaceae, Hymenophyllaceae, Family Osmundaceae, Osmundaceae, Azollaceae, Family Azollaceae, Family Gleicheniaceae, Gleicheniaceae, Family Parkeriaceae, Parkeriaceae, Family Polypodiaceae, Polypodiaceae, Family Vittariaceae, Vittariaceae, Aspleniaceae, Family Aspleniaceae, Blechnaceae, Family Blechnaceae, Dicksoniaceae, Family Dicksoniaceae, Family Oleandraceae, Oleandraceae, Family Pteridaceae, Pteridaceae
Group relationships: Class Filicinae, Class Filicopsida, Filicinae, Filicopsida

Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Filicales

order Endomycetales
order Entomophthorales
order Ephemerida
order Ephemeroptera
order Equisetales
order Ericales
order Erysiphales
order Eubacteriales
order Eubryales
order Euphausiacea
order Eurotiales
order Eurypterida
order Exocycloida
order Fagales
order Falconiformes
order Filicales (current term)
order Foraminifera
order Fucales
order Gadiformes
order Galliformes
order Ganoidei
order Gaviiformes
order Gentianales
order Geophilomorpha
order Geraniales
order Ginkgoales
order Gnetales
order Graminales
order Gregarinida
order Gruiformes

Literary usage of Order Filicales

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

1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"Their conclusions are undoubtedly correct but are not at present usable. The families of the order Filicales may be distinguished as follows: A. Spores of ..."

2. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"... while the following order includes the leptosporangiate ferns. 602. order Filicales.—This order includes the typical ferns. ..."

3. Essentials of College Botany by Charles Edwin Bessey, Ernst Athearn Bessey (1914)
"Order FILICALES. Land Ferns. Spores of one kind; gametophytes foliose, monoecious. Family 4. Osmundaceae. Sporangia globose, splitting vertically.—Osmunda. ..."

4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"A plant of the order Filicales, one of the three great living groups of pteridophytes. The group contains about 4000 of the 4500 species belonging to the ..."

5. Maryland Geological Survey by Maryland Geological Survey (1906)
"Order FILICALES. Family OSMUNDACEAE. Genus OSMUNDA Linne. OSMUNDA 8p. ? Plate LXVII, Fig. 3. Description.—This specimen is one of the many masses of ..."

6. The New International Encyclopaedia by Herbert Treadwell Wade (1922)
"A plant of the order Filicales, one of the great living groups of Pteridophytes. The group contains about 4000 of the 4500 species belonging to the ..."

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