182.500 Cyclosorus Link

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Description of the genus

Plants terrestrial. Rhizome wide-creeping, branched. Fronds monomorphic, closely to widely spaced, pinnate to 2-pinnate. Lamina with thin scales on the undersurface of costae, no reduced basal pinnae. Pinnae lobes with a few pairs of veins meeting below the sinus between the lobes. Sori circular; indusium very small, reniform.

Derivation of name: kuklos: circle; referring to the shape of the sori.

Worldwide: c. 3 species, pantropical distribution.

Zimbabwe: 1 taxon.

Links to taxa: View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

Species	FZ divisions	Content
interruptus (Willd.) H. Itô	N,W,E	Description, Image

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