Genus Doryopteris (Noun)
Meaning
Small to medium tropical tufted ferns; sometimes placed in family Adiantaceae.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Genus doryopteris comprises around twenty species of small to medium tropical tufted ferns.
- Plants in genus doryopteris can often be recognized by the two-part blades that display clear morphological contrasts between proximal and distal pinnules.
- Tropical doryopteris genus exhibit marked gametophyte dimorphism.
- Morphological characteristics including vegetative habit of genus doryopteris were surveyed using light microscopy.
- Pichi Sermolli placed genus doryopteris within Hookerioideae within the family Adiantaceae rather than in Davalliaceae.