Odontosoria

• Authority

  Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.

• Family

  Lindsaeaceae

• Scientific Name

  Odontosoria

• Description

  
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  Description - Clambering ferns, terrestrial with short, slender, creeping rhizomes, covered with scales. Fronds monomorphic, elongate, clambering, usually spiny; blades narrowly triangular to linear, 2-5-pinnate; pinnae and pinnules forming a right angle with the axis or rachis; pinnules linear to flabellate. Sori in marginal pockets, containing three sporangia; indusia absent. A neotropical genus of 12 species.