Ophioglossaceae
Grapefern Family
The Ophioglossaceae family (Grapefern Family) is a botanical family placed in the order Ophioglossales. It is represented by a single species in the SASYA catalogue. That species is a herb.
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A single, simple, undivided or only slightly divided sterile leaf blade paired with one narrow, upright, spike- or grape-cluster-shaped fertile stalk that bears its spores directly and openly, rather than in the rolled fiddleheads or clustered sori typical of most ferns.
As true ferns this family has no flowers or seeds — its spores form directly on an upright, unfurled fertile spike rather than in the coiled fiddleheads and leaf-back sori of nearly every other fern family.
Notable members
All 1 species in OPHIOGLOSSACEAE
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