Odontosoria

  • Authority

    Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.

  • Family

    Lindsaeaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Odontosoria

  • Description

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    Genus Description - Terrestrial ferns with scandent and rather rampant fronds of indefinite growth. Rhizomes slender, wide-creeping, densely clothed with narrow, almost hairlike scales. Fronds 2- to 4-pinnate; pinnae opposite; ultimate pinnules small and variously lobed or cleft; stipe and rachis subwoody, slender and flexuous, and usually spiny. Sori terminal on single veins, immersed in tissue; indusium joined to the opposed frond lobule to form an urn-shaped involucre, opening outward at margin; spores usually spherical, trilete, the surface smooth or slightly granulate.

    Distribution and Ecology - A genus of about a dozen species with neotropical distribution