Gleicheniaceae
Gleichenia Family
The Gleicheniaceae family (Gleichenia Family) is a botanical family placed in the order Gleicheniales. It is represented by a single species in the SASYA catalogue. That species is a climbing fern.
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A scrambling or climbing fern whose frond repeatedly forks into two roughly equal branches at each growth point, rather than the usual once-pinnate division, often forming dense, tangled thickets; small clusters of spore cases sit in simple round groups without a protective flap.
As a true fern this family has no flowers or seeds — its distinctive repeated forking growth pattern, doubling at each branch point, is unlike the feathery, once-divided fronds of most other ferns.
Notable members
All 1 species in GLEICHENIACEAE
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