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Definition of Pellaea
1. Noun. Genus of chiefly small rock-loving ferns; in some classification systems it is placed in the family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae.
Generic synonyms: Fern Genus
Group relationships: Family Pteridaceae, Pteridaceae
Member holonyms: Cliff Brake, Cliff-brake, Rock Brake, Coffee Fern, Pellaea Andromedifolia, Button Fern, Pellaea Rotundifolia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pellaea
Literary usage of Pellaea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands by Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1913)
"Asplenium adiantum nigrum, Asplenium trichomanes, Poly- podium pellucidum and
pellaea ternifolia, besides Psilotum ..."
2. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter (1909)
"... 6-12 mm. long, sessile; the sterile ones serrate.—In clefts of rocks; northwestern
Wyoming to Oregon and California. 4. pellaea ..."
3. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1896)
"pellaea sagittata Link. 4887, dry banks and ledges, Sierra de San Felipe, 7, ...
Its natural affinities otherwise, however, are so clearly with pellaea that ..."
4. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1907)
"... which Diels transferred to Cryptogramma in 1899, Christensen restores to pellaea.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, September 30, 1907. A LONG ISLAND CEDAR-SWAMP BY ..."