[FTEA]
Gleicheniaceae, B. Verdcourt, B.Sc., Ph.D.. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2000
- Morphology General Habit
- Terrestrial herbs, often large, with widely creeping rhizomes bearing scales and/or hairs
[FWTA]
Gleicheniaceae, A.H.G Alston. Flora of West Tropical Africa. 1959
- Morphology General Habit
- Perennial terrestrial herbs with wide–creeping rhizomes; frond apparently dichotomous, due to arrested growth owing to the formation of a dormant terminal bud; apex of rhizome and buds covered with scales or hairs; stipule–like leaflets present in some species; pinnae lobed almost to the costa, elongate (in W.African species), with forked free veins; sori on the veins punctate with a few large subsessile sporangia; no indusium; annulus uniseriate, sharply defined, oblique and complete except at the line of dehiscence; dehiscence vertical; spore trilete (in W.African species)
Gleicheniaceae C.Presl appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Reliq. Haenk. 1: 70. 1825 (1825)
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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Flora of West Tropical Africa
Flora of West Tropical Africa
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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