-
Psilotaceae is a
family of
ferns (class Polypodiopsida)
consisting of two genera,
Psilotum and
Tmesipteris with
about a
dozen species. It is the only...
- of fern-like
vascular plants. It is one of two
genera in the
family Psilotaceae commonly known as
whisk ferns, the
other being Tmesipteris.
Plants in...
- ISBN 978-0-521-06661-7. Tutin,
Thomas Gaskell (1993).
Flora Europaea,
Volume 1:
Psilotaceae to
Platanaceae (2nd ed.).
Cambridge New York
Melbourne [etc.]: Cambridge...
- ; Burges, N. A.; Edmondson, J. R. (eds.).
Flora Europaea.
Volume 1,
Psilotaceae to
Platanaceae (2 ed.).
Cambridge University Press. pp. 287–290. ISBN 978-0-521-41007-6...
- Gardener's
Chronicle (August 13, 1887 ) pp. 190-191. 120 varieties. Carr, G. "
Psilotaceae".
University of Hawai`i at Manoa.
Retrieved 1
April 2010. Mary Kawena...
- have a
vascular system within a
branching cylindrical stem. The
living Psilotaceae, the whisk-ferns, were
sometimes added to the class,
which was then usually...
- ****igned to its own order.
class Psilotopsida Order Psilotales,
family Psilotaceae –
Whisk ferns (2 genera,
about 17 species)
Order Ophioglossales, family...
- clubmosses, spikemosses, and
quillworts in Lycopodiophyta; the
whisk ferns of
Psilotaceae; and the
horsetails of Equisetaceae.
Since this
grouping is polyphyletic...
-
about 9,000 species,
including horsetails (Equisetaceae),
whisk ferns (
Psilotaceae), and all
eusporangiate and all
leptosporangiate ferns. Historically...
- in some groups,
notably the
clade that
includes Ophioglossaceae and
Psilotaceae, the
gametophytes are
subterranean and
subsist by
forming mycotrophic...
