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Definition of Indusia
1. indusium [n] - See also: indusium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Indusia
Literary usage of Indusia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Laboratory Directions for Elementary Botany by James Barkley Pollock (1922)
"... showing the characteristic form of the leaf, and the distribution of the
sporangium clusters, sori, with true or false indusia whichever they may have. ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Var. intermedia, Underw., has more persistent scales, with a brown center, and
the margins of the indusia with stalked glands. One of our commonest wood ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"Canada to Ky.—One of our largest and most stately native species. DD. Lvs.
mostly bipinnate: indusia con- rex, rather firm. 9. ..."
4. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"indusia following the shape of the sorus, attached along its length at the ...
indusia straight or variously curved, often shaped like a shepherd's crook. ..."
5. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"indusia glabrous or nearly so : pinnae usually somewhat oblique to the rachis,
... indusia glandular ; pinnae usually at right angles, the lowest unequally ..."
6. The Philippine Journal of Science by Institute of Science and Technology (Philippines) (1907)
"The indusia are beset with hairs, which I interpret as water-repellant structures
... The paraphyses are in part a substitute for indusia and often occur on ..."
7. Our Native Ferns and Their Allies: With Synoptical Descriptions of the by Lucien Marcus Underwood (1888)
"Sori at the end of free veins. tt indusia fixed by a broad base partly under the
... Texture delicate. ttt indusia obscure. Fertile frond much contracted, ..."
8. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1902)
"The second type is represented by Aspidium Lonchitis Swartz, which, while it has
peltate indusia, as in Aspidium proper, has its venation wholly free. ..."
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