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Definition of Genus Goniopteris
1. Noun. Terrestrial ferns of Florida and West Indies to Central and South America.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Goniopteris
Literary usage of Genus Goniopteris
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Contributions to the Paleobotany of Peru, Bolivia and Chile: Five Papers by Edward Wilber Berry (1922)
"The genus Goniopteris comprises about 60 existing species, largely confined to
the American tropics, but said to be sparingly represented in Africa, ..."
2. Historia filicum: An Exposition of the Nature, Number and Organography of by John Smith (1875)
"... closely allied in natural habit and organisation are placed in separate tribes.
For example, the genus Goniopteris has naked sori, while its congener ..."
3. The Permian Or Upper Carboniferous Flora of West Virginia and S.W. Pennsylvania by William Morris Fontaine, Israel Charles White, Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania (1880)
"The plants of the genus Goniopteris, as limited by Schim- per, are among the most
characteristic ones of the Upper Carboniferous. ..."
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