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Antrophyopsis
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Antrophyopsis

Antrophyopsis is a genus of vittarioid ferns, a member of subfamily Vittarioideae and family Pteridaceae. Like other vittarioids, ferns in the genus are epiphytes with simple, straplike leaves. They are native to tropical Africa and islands of the Indian Ocean. The presence of a midrib in their leaves, the shape of their spores, and the shape of cells at the tip of their paraphyses (minute hairs on the spore-bearing structures) help to distinguish members of the...

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Antrophyopsis boryana

speciesAntrophyopsis boryana

Antrophyopsis manniana

speciesAntrophyopsis manniana

Antrophyopsis gigantea

speciesAntrophyopsis gigantea

Antrophyopsis bivittata

speciesAntrophyopsis bivittata

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 929374.