Definition of Genus Todea

1. Noun. A genus of delicate ferns belonging to the family Osmundaceae.

Exact synonyms: Todea
Group relationships: Family Osmundaceae, Osmundaceae
Member holonyms: Crepe Fern, King Fern, Todea Barbara
Generic synonyms: Fern Genus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Todea

genus Thysanocarpus
genus Tiarella
genus Tibicen
genus Tichodroma
genus Tilapia
genus Tilia
genus Tillandsia
genus Tilletia
genus Timalia
genus Tinca
genus Tinea
genus Tineola
genus Tipuana
genus Titanosaurus
genus Tithonia
genus Todea (current term)
genus Todus
genus Tofieldia
genus Tolmiea
genus Tolypeutes
genus Tomistoma
genus Toona
genus Torreya
genus Tortrix
genus Townsendia
genus Toxicodendron
genus Toxostoma
genus Toxotes
genus Trachinotus

Literary usage of Genus Todea

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

1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"Amongst the Osmundaceae some species of the genus Todea—T. pellucida, T. superba, and their allies which form the section ..."

2. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"... filmy" 'character is the most salient vegetative feature, and that this has carried with it, as in the genus Todea, a decrease in size of the sporangia, ..."

3. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain). (1895)
"... genus Todea; and no doubt they will be more so when the fact becomes generally recognised, that Todea superba (the queen of the genus) is so nearly ..."

4. Proceedings by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1883)
"... I think the character of the fruit points to affinities with the Osmundaceae, and it is probably most closely related to the genus Todea. ..."

5. On Molecular and Microscopic Science by Mary Somerville (1869)
"... section of the genus Todea, almost peculiar to New Zealand, has beautiful transparent fronds, with naked sporangia placed upon the veins, forming very ..."

6. The Fossil Plants of the Devonian and Upper Silurian Formations of Canada by Geological Survey of Canada, John William Dawson (1871)
"... shows minute rounded spore-cases comparable with those of the modern genus Todea, which the fern itself also closely resembles. ..."

7. Geological record (1877)
"The species are chiefly ferns; and in this group are remains referred to the existing genus Todea. ..."

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