Definition of Pellaea ornithopus

1. Noun. Cliff brake of California and Baja California having purple-brown leafstalks.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Pellaea Ornithopus

Pelecanus onocrotalus
Peleg
Peleus
Pelew
Pelham
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
Pelican State
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease
Pell's equation
Pella
Pellaea
Pellaea andromedifolia
Pellaea atropurpurea
Pellaea mucronata
Pellaea ornithopus
Pellaea rotundifolia
Pellegrini's disease
Pellegrini-Stieda disease
Pellicularia
Pellicularia filamentosa
Pellicularia koleroga
Pellizzi's syndrome
Pellow
Pelobatidae
Peloponnese
Peloponnesian
Peloponnesian Peninsula
Peloponnesian War
Peloponnesians

Literary usage of Pellaea ornithopus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (1915)
"Among the stones scattered over the surface grew pellaea ornithopus, Cheilanthes Fendleri and a small Dudleya. Along the main drainage wash, now dry, ..."

2. Report Upon United States Geographical Surveys West of the One Hundredth by George Montague Wheeler, Andrew Atkinson Humphreys, Horatio Gouverneur Wright (1878)
"pellaea ornithopus, Hooker. Rootstock and stalks as in the last species, though often stouter ; fronds very rigid, a few inches to a foot long, ..."

3. Botanisches Zentralblatt: Referierendes Organ für das Gesamtgebiet der Botanik by Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft, Botanischer Verein in München, Botaniska sällskapet, Stockholm, Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft, Berlin (1905)
"pellaea ornithopus. (Fern Bull. XII. p. 113—114.) — 104.) [O. cinnamomea was found with well-developed fertile fronds, September 25, 1904, near Mobile, ..."

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