Ophioglossidae
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Ophioglossidae
[‚äf·ē·ō′gläs·ə‚dē] (botany)
The adder's-tongue ferns, a small subclass of the class Polypodiopsida; the plants are homosporous and eusporangiate and are distinguished by the arrangement of the sporogenous tissue in the characteristic fertile spike of the sporophyte.
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Licofitas y Helechos de Mendoza: Lycopodiidae, Equisetidae,
Ophioglossidae y Polypodiidae.
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