Wild Plants of Malta - Plant Family Index

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Index of Plant Families (8 families in this page)

Spleenwort

Buckler fern

Horsetail

Quillwort

Polypod Fern

Fern

Salvinia

Spikemoss

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ASPLENIACEAE Newman ( Spleenwort Family )				Subfamalies: nil. Family Description: Rhizome dictyostelic, with clathrate scales. Petiole with 2 vascular strands, often fusing to form a single �-shaped strand. Sori superficial, borne along one or both sides of the fertile veins; spores bilateral.

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Asplenium ceterach

Main Synonym :

Ceterech officinarum

Rusty-back Fern,
Scale Fern

Felċi tal-Ħitan tas-Sejjieħ

All year

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5
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Asplenium marinum

Main Synonym :

No synonyms for this species

Sea Spleenwort Fern

Felċi tal-Baħar

All year

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4
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Asplenium sagittatum

(DC.) Bunge, A. J.

Main Synonym :

Phyllitis sagittata

Mule's Fern

Felċi tal-bir

All year

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11
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Asplenium trichomanes

Main Synonym :

No synonyms for this species

Maidenhair Spleenwort Fern,
Common Spleenwort Fern

Felċi rqiqa

All year

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18
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DRYOPTERIDACEAE Herter ( Buckler fern Family )				Subfamalies: Dryopteridoideae; Elaphoglossoideae Family Description: Rhizome dictyostelic, with opaque scales. Petiole with 5-7 vascular strands; rhachis grooved, interrupted to admit grooves of costae. Sori superficial; spores bilateral.

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Cyrtomium falcatum

(L.f.) C. Presl

Main Synonym :

Polystichum falcatum

Japanese Holly Fern

Felċi Ġappuniża

Spring

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3
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Cyrtomium fortunei

Smith

Main Synonym :

Polystichum fortunei

Asian Netvein Holly Fern

Felċi Asjatika

Spring

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2
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EQUISETACEAE Michaux ex DC ( Horsetail Family )				Subfamalies: nil. Family Description: Rhizomes subterranean, far-creeping. Stems grooved and regularly jointed. Leaves in whorls, united at the base into a sheath. Homosporous; cones composed of sporangiophores; sporangia borne beneath the peltate heads of the sporangiophores; spores spherical with 4 elaters, green. Prothallus green.

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Equisetum ramosissimum

Desfrontaines

Main Synonym :

Equisetum campanulatum

Branched Horsetail

Denb iż-żiemel

All year

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ISOETACEAE Rchb. ( Quillwort Family )				Subfamalies: nil. Family Description: Stem short, 2- or 3-lobed. Leaves in a rosette; leaf-base spathulate, with a membranous margin, with a delicate ligule on the adaxial surface at the point where the leaf narrows. Heterosporous; megaspores tetrahedral; microspores bilateral, in separate sporangia.

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Isoetes histrix var. subinermis

(Gennari) Durieu

Main Synonym :

Cephaloceraton histrix

Sand Quillwort,
Land Quillwort

Isoetes

All year

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POLYPODIACEAE J. Presl & C. Presl ( Polypod Fern Family )				Subfamalies: Loxogrammoideae(=Loxogrammaceae family); Drynarioideae(= Drynariaceae family); Microsoroideae(= family); Platycerioideae(= Platyceriaceae family); Polypodioideae (includes the Gymnogrammitidaceae family) Family Description: Rhizome polystelic or solenostelic, with opaque scales. Leaves 2-ranked on the upper side of the rhizome and articulated to it; petiole with 1-3 major vascular strands. Sori superficial, without indusium; spores bilateral.

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Polypodium vulgare subsp. melitensis

Peroni, G.Peroni & Mifsud

Main Synonym :

No synonyms for this species

Maltese Polypody

Felċi ta' Malta

Dec-Mar

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PTERIDACEAE E.D.M. Kirchn ( Fern Family )				Subfamalies: Cryptogrammoideae; Ceratopteridoideae; Pteridoideae; Cheilanthoideae; Vittarioideae Family Description: Rhizome solenostelic or dictyostelic, with opaque scales. Petiole with a single U-shaped strand. Sori submarginal, forming coenosori which are borne on the veinlet connecting the vein ends, and which are covered by the scarious, deflexed leaf-margins; spores tetrahedral, opaque.

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Adiantum capillus-veneris

Main Synonym :

Adiantum michelii

Maidenhair Fern,
Black Maiden Fern,
Venus Hairfern

Tursin il-Bir

All Year

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Anogramma leptophylla

(L.) Link

Main Synonym :

Polypodium leptophyllum

Annual Maidenhair,
Jersey Fern

Tursin ir-riħ

All Year

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13
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Pteris cretica

Main Synonym :

No synonyms for this species

Cretan Brake,
Ribbon Fern

Pteris

All year

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Pteris vittata

Main Synonym :

Pteris longifolia

Ladder Brake,
Chinese Brake Fern

Pteris

All year

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SALVINIACEAE Martinov ( Salvinia Family )				Subfamalies: nil. Family Description: Stems slender, branched, floating. Leaves in whorls of 3, very hairy; 2 of the leaves entire, floating, the third submerged. Heterosporous; sori at the base of the submerged leaves, stalked, surrounded by a thin-walled, hairy indusium, and consisting of either numerous microsporangia or a few megasporangia, or occasionally mixed.

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SELAGINELLACEAE Willk. ( Spikemoss Family )				Subfamalies: nil. Family Description: Stems erect or creeping. Leaves numerous, simple, small, 1-veined, with a ligule on the adaxial surface. Heterosporous; sporangia grouped in strobili; individual sporangia solitary at the base of the sporophylls, unilocular; spores tetrahedral.