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Stem erect, decumbent or to very long-creeping, stout to slender, with a dictyostele, usually indurated, bearing scales; leaves ca. 10 cm to 5 m long, entire or usually pinnate, circinate in the bud, petiole without stipules; sporangia borne in roundish to elongate abaxial sori or rarely also on the leaf-tissue, indusiate, the indusium usually reniform, or exindusiate, mostly rather short-stalked, the stalk 2- to 3-rowed below its apex, the vertical annulus interrupted by the stalk; homosporous, spores lacking cholorphyll. Gametophyte epigeal, with chlorophyll, more or less obcordate, slightly thickened centrally, often with unicellular, rarely multicellular trichomes and (or) glands, archegonia borne on the lower surface, mostly in the central region, antheridia 3-celled, borne on the lower surface, mostly among the archegonia.
Thelypteridaceae Pic.-Ser., Webbia 24: 711. 1970. Type: Thelypteris Schmidel.
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Tryon, R.M., Tryon, A.F. (1982). Thelypteridaceae. In: Ferns and Allied Plants. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8162-4_18
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