Definition of Pellaea

1. Noun. Genus of chiefly small rock-loving ferns; in some classification systems it is placed in the family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Pellaea

Pelecanidae
Pelecanoididae
Pelecanus
Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
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

Literary usage of Pellaea

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

1. The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands by Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1913)
"Asplenium adiantum nigrum, Asplenium trichomanes, Poly- podium pellucidum and pellaea ternifolia, besides Psilotum ..."

2. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter (1909)
"... 6-12 mm. long, sessile; the sterile ones serrate.—In clefts of rocks; northwestern Wyoming to Oregon and California. 4. pellaea ..."

3. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1896)
"pellaea sagittata Link. 4887, dry banks and ledges, Sierra de San Felipe, 7, ... Its natural affinities otherwise, however, are so clearly with pellaea that ..."

4. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1907)
"... which Diels transferred to Cryptogramma in 1899, Christensen restores to pellaea. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, September 30, 1907. A LONG ISLAND CEDAR-SWAMP BY ..."

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