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Electronic Flora of South Australia genus Fact Sheet

Family: Dicksoniaceae
Dicksonia

Citation: L'Hér., Sert. Angl. 30 (1789).

Derivation: After James Dickson, an English botanist.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Caudex erect and often very thick due to an adventitious root-mantle, more rarely prostrate or creeping; fronds large, decompound, veins free; sori marginal, globular, 1-2 mm diam.; indusium 2-valved, the outer false and formed by the recurved margin, the inner submembranous.

Distribution:  30 species, 2 in Australia.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available


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