Woodwardia

Woodwardia
Woodwardia
Temporal range: 15.6–0 Ma
Middle Miocene to present[1]
Woodwardia radicans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Pteridophyta
Class: Pteridopsida
Order: Blechnales
Family: Blechnaceae
Genus: Woodwardia
Sm.
Species
Synonyms

Anchistea C. Presl
Chieniopteris Ching
Lorinseria C. Presl

Woodwardia (chain fern) is a genus of 14-20 species of ferns in the family Blechnaceae, native to warm temperate and subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere. They are large ferns, with fronds growing to 50-300 cm long depending on the species.

References

  1. ^ *Pigg, Kathleen B. & Rothwell, Gar W. (2001); "Anatomically preserved Woodwardia virginica (Blechnaceae) and a new Filicalean fern from the Middle Miocene Yakima Canyon Flora of central Washington, USA" American Journal of Botany 88(5):777-787

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  • Woodwardia — Wood*war di*a, n. [NL. After Thomas J. Woodward, an English botanist.] (Bot.) A genus of ferns, one species of which ({Woodwardia radicans}) is a showy plant in California, the Azores, etc. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • Woodwardia — ID 88991 Symbol Key WOODW Common Name chainfern Family Blechnaceae Category Fern Division Pteridophyta US Nativity N/A US/NA Plant Yes State Distribution AL, AR, AZ, CA, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IL, IN, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO, MS, NC, NH, NJ, NV,… …   USDA Plant Characteristics

  • Woodwardia — noun in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae: chain ferns • Syn: ↑genus Woodwardia • Hypernyms: ↑fern genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Blechnaceae, ↑family Blechnaceae • Member Meronym …   Useful english dictionary

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  • Woodwardia radicans — Woodwardia Wood*war di*a, n. [NL. After Thomas J. Woodward, an English botanist.] (Bot.) A genus of ferns, one species of which ({Woodwardia radicans}) is a showy plant in California, the Azores, etc. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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