Whisk fern, Psilotum nudum (Family Psilotaceae), is a widespread, rootless, green-stemmed epiphyte. Technically, the whisk fern plant is said to have no leaves, but instead possesses minute enations along the angular stem axis and in association with the 3-lobed spore-producing structure, the synangium.
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Psilotum ( whisk fern ) is a genus of fern-like vascular plants, one of two genera in the family Psilotaceae , order Psilotales , and class Psilotopsida (the other being Tmesipteris ). Th...
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The whisk fern (Psilotum spp., family Psilotaceae) splays its leafless, whisk-like branches upward, and is a living fossil from the time before the dinosaurs. It can grow as an epiphyte in moist climates or as a terrestrial plant in drier areas.
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on whisk fern (genus), either of the two species of the primitive fern genus Psilotum in the family Psilotaceae of the order Psilotales and the class Psilotopsida of the division Pteridophyta (the lower vascular plants). ... There are two phases in the life cycle of a whisk fern.
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A PLANTS profile of Psilotum nudum (whisk fern) from the USDA PLANTS database ... Psilotum nudum (L.) P. Beauv. whisk fern; ... bush moss, whisk fern Highly Safeguarded...
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Image and cultivation suggestions for whisk fern. ... It is considered a fern ally because it is a spore-producing vascular plant. Whisk fern is native to swamplands and dry rocky cliffs from North Carolina to Oklahoma to the tropics.
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Whisk Ferns produce spores which grow into small underground masses of tissue that develop sex organs. The picture shows a section through the spore sacs of a present-day whisk fern. The main plant can be compared to the sporophyte stage of a moss.
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Hawaii County Level Distribution for Psilotum nudum (whisk fern) from the USDA PLANTS database ... Psilotum nudum (L.) P. Beauv. - whisk fern; PSNU in the state of Hawaii...
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