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Ophioderma
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Ophioderma

The genus Ophioderma are distinctive ferns (or fern-allies) in the family Ophioglossaceae. Ophioderma is closely related to, and sometimes treated as a subgenus of, the genus Ophioglossum. It includes the genus formerly known as Cheiroglossa. Recent genetic analysis has indicated that the two genera should be treated as one, and Ophioderma has precedence by being validly published at an earlier date. The type species is Ophioderma pendulum.

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first

ribbon fern

speciesOphioderma pendulum

Ophioderma falcatum

speciesOphioderma falcatum

Ophioderma intermedium

speciesOphioderma intermedium

Ophioderma simplex

speciesOphioderma simplex

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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 965890.