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MaltaWildPlants.com by Stephen Mifsud |
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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 with 5 images. |
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L.
Main Synonym :
No synonyms for this species | Sea Spleenwort Fern | Felċi tal-Baħar | All year |  | Normal Profile with 4 images. |
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(DC.) Bunge, A. J.
Main Synonym :
Phyllitis sagittata | Mule's Fern | Felċi tal-bir | All year |  | Normal Profile with 11 images. |
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L.
Main Synonym :
No synonyms for this species | Maidenhair Spleenwort Fern, Common Spleenwort Fern | Felċi rqiqa | All year |  | Normal Profile with 18 images. |
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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 with 3 images. |
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Smith
Main Synonym :
Polystichum fortunei | Asian Netvein Holly Fern | Felċi Asjatika | Spring |  | Normal Profile with 2 images. |
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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 with 19 images. |
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(L.) Link
Main Synonym :
Polypodium leptophyllum | Annual Maidenhair, Jersey Fern | Tursin ir-riħ | All Year |  | Normal Profile with 13 images. |
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L.
Main Synonym :
No synonyms for this species | Cretan Brake, Ribbon Fern | Pteris | All year |  | Normal Profile with 0 images. |
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L.
Main Synonym :
Pteris longifolia | Ladder Brake, Chinese Brake Fern | Pteris | All year |  | Normal Profile with 0 images. |
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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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