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Schizaea
Family: Schizaeaceae
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Warren H. Wagner Jr. in Flora of North America (vol. 2)
Plants terrestrial. Roots blackish, very narrow, tangled, practically glabrous. Stems upright to reclining; hairs few celled, uniseriate. Leaves all fertile or dimorphic with some sterile, lacking blades, mainly unbranched, long-petioled. Fertile blades folded and fistlike or pectinate, pinnate, segments (digits) arising along rachis on distal 3--10 mm; sterile leaves straight or often curling. Sporangia in 2 rows. Gametophytes growing mixed with mosses, green (photosynthetic), delicately filamentous, lacking hairs. x = 77, 94, 103.
Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Rhizome erect; lvs borne spirally, circinate in vernation, the sterile simple and linear, the fertile with several apical pairs of segments; sporangia sessile, protected by the incurved, long-ciliate lf-margin, erect or slightly bent, the annulus terminal; spores bilateral; gametophyte filamentous. 30, ±cosmop.

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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Species within inventory project: North American Species Lists
Schizaea australis
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Schizaea bifida
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Schizaea dichotoma
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Schizaea elegans
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Schizaea fistulosa
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Schizaea fluminensis
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Schizaea incurvata
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Schizaea malaccana
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Schizaea montis-petrae
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Schizaea pectinata
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Schizaea poeppigiana
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Schizaea pseudodichotoma
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Schizaea pusilla
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Schizaea rhacoindusiata
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Schizaea rupestris
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Schizaea sprucei
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Schizaea stricta
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Schizaea tenella
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Schizaea x diversispora
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The PCC, and this data portal, were made possible by funding from the National Science Foundation’s Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections (ADBC) program, grant numbers 1802504, 1802352, 1802134, 1802033, 1802270, 1802255, 1802239, 1802446, 1802305.
The pteridoportal taxonomic thesaurus is based on the Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World, generously provided by Michael Hassler.