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Ferns and Horsetails (Monilophytes)
Clubmosses and Quillworts (Lycophytes)
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Small ferns usually growing among rocks. Rhizomes shortly creeping, scaly; leaves in tufts; stipes with joints about a third of the way up (in British species); 1-2 pinnate; sori round with indusium divided into hair-like or scale-like segments.
About 25 species in boreal, temperate or mountainous regions, mostly in the Northern Hemisphere. Two species in Britain. |
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