115.200 Ophioglossum L.
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Pteridophyta Flora Zambesiaca
Description of the genus
Rhizome globose, subglobose or elongated, fleshy. Fronds devided into a simple leaflike fragment (trophophore) and a simple fertile segment (sporophore), inserted at base of the sterile segment or on the petiole, with a double row of sporangia in a spike near the apex. Derivation of name: ophis: snake, glossa: tongue; an allusion to the slender, sometimes forked apex above the fertile spike. Worldwide: c. 30-50 species, cosmopolitan distribution Tanzania: 0 taxa. |
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