Odontosoria

  • Authority

    Mickel, John T. & Smith, Alan R. 2004. The pteridophytes of Mexico. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 88: 1-1054.

  • Family

    Lindsaeaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Odontosoria

  • Description

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    Genus Description - Terrestrial; rhizomes short-creeping, slender, scaly; fronds large, scandent, narrowly deltate to linear, 1–6 m long; stipes smooth to spiny, lustrous, stramineous to castaneous; blades 3–5 times pinnate, pinnae and subdivisions at right angles to their subtending axes; segments linear to flabellate, chartaceous to subcoriaceous; sori marginal, in outward facing pouches; indusia attached on 3 sides, with only ca. 3 sporangia per sorus; spores tetrahedral-globose, without perispore; x =96 (from x =48?).

  • Discussion

    Type: Odontosoria uncinella (Kunze) Fe´e [= Davallia uncinella Kunze].

    Odontosoria is a tropical genus of 22 species, of which 12 occur in America and only two in Mexico. It is probably most closely related to Sphenomeris, and a member of the lindsaeoid group of genera. The genus is distinct by the sori in small pockets at segment apices and the rhizome indument of scales.