Class Filicinae (Noun)
Meaning
Ferns.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The class Filicinae contains the largest order of ferns, comprising a wide range of species found worldwide.
- Filicinae is the class of the true ferns and there are many plants which people call ferns but actually belong to other groups.
- Recent studies indicate that the class Filicinae may actually consist of one or more groups of archaic plants which gave rise to the flowering plants.
- Fern classification usually places members of the class Filicinae at the pinnacle of an evolutionary sequence that progresses from the Psilopsida through the other ferns.
- Within the class Filicinae the true ferns include various familiar plants, including the ostrich and lady ferns, as well as horsetails and whisk ferns.