Dicksoniaceae


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Noun1.Dicksoniaceae - tree ferns: genera Dicksonia, Cibotium, Culcita, and Thyrsopteris elegans
fern family - families of ferns and fern allies
Filicales, order Filicales, order Polypodiales, Polypodiales - true (leptosporangiate) ferns
Dicksonia, genus Dicksonia - tree ferns of temperate Australasia having bipinnatifid or tripinnatifid fronds and usually marginal sori; in some classification systems placed in family Cyatheaceae
Cibotium, genus Cibotium - in some classification systems placed in family Cyatheaceae: ornamental tree ferns with coarse gracefully drooping fronds
Culcita, genus Culcita - includes some plants usually placed in e.g. genus Dicksonia: terrestrial ferns resembling bracken; tropical America; Malaysia to Australia and Polynesia; southwestern Europe and Atlantic islands
genus Thyrsopteris - one species
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Dennstaedtia obtusifolia (Willd.) SA GEO RIZ T.Moore Hypolepis stolonifera Fee TA HEM CRA Pteridium arachnoideum (Kaulf.) TA GEO CRA Maxon Dicksoniaceae Dicksonia sellowiana Hook.
superposita (Melastomataceae) y Morella pubescens (Myricaceae), con presencia de helechos arboreos de las familias Dicksoniaceae (Dicksonia sp.) y Cyatheaceae (Sphaeropteris quindiuensis).
& Fisch) DICKSONIACEAE Dicksonia sellowiana Hook.
Possible Botanical Affinities: Dicksoniaceae [28] Granulatisporites sp.
Part 1: Psilotaceae throught Dicksoniaceae. Pteridologia, 2A: 1-364.