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Index of Plant Families (8 families in this page) |
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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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L.
Main Synonym :
Ceterech officinarum | Rusty-back Fern,
Scale Fern | Felċi Tal-Ħitan Tas-Sejjieħ | All year |  | Normal Profile
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L.
Main Synonym :
No main synonyms for this taxon | Sea Spleenwort Fern | Felċi Tal-Baħar | All year |  | Normal Profile
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(DC.) Bunge, A. J.
Main Synonym :
Phyllitis sagittata | Mule's Fern | Felċi Tal-bir | All year |  | Normal Profile
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L.
Main Synonym :
No main synonyms for this taxon | Maidenhair Spleenwort Fern,
Common Spleenwort Fern | Felċi Rqiqa | All year |  | Normal Profile
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L.
Main Synonym :
Asplenium ceterach | Rusty-back Fern,
Scale Fern | Felċi Tal-Ħitan Tas-Sejjieħ | All year | | Normal Profile
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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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(L.f.) C. Presl
Main Synonym :
Polystichum falcatum | Japanese Holly Fern | Felċi Ġappuniża | Spring |  | Normal Profile
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Smith
Main Synonym :
Polystichum fortunei | Asian Netvein Holly Fern | Felċi Asjatika | Spring |  | Normal Profile
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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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(L.) Link
Main Synonym :
Polypodium leptophyllum | Annual Maidenhair,
Jersey Fern | Tursin Ir-riħ | All Year |  | Normal Profile
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A. Peroni, G. Peroni & S. Mifsud
Main Synonym :
No main synonyms for this taxon | Maltese Polypody | Felċi Ta' Malta | Dec-Mar | | Normal Profile
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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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L.
Main Synonym :
Adiantum michelii | Maidenhair Fern,
Black Maiden Fern,
Venus Hairfern | Tursin Il-Bir | All Year |  | Normal Profile
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L.
Main Synonym :
No main synonyms for this taxon | Cretan Brake,
Ribbon Fern | Pteris | All year | | Normal Profile
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L.
Main Synonym :
Pteris longifolia | Ladder Brake,
Chinese Brake Fern | Pteris | All year | | Normal Profile
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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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