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Trichomanes   Listen
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Trichomanes  n.  (Bot.) Any fern of the genus Trichomanes. The fronds are very delicate and often translucent, and the sporangia are borne on threadlike receptacles rising from the middle of cup-shaped marginal involucres. Several species are common in conservatories; two are native in the United States.





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... and Prof. Asa Gray have described ('Botanical Gazette,' 1880, pp. 27, 43), an extremely curious case of movement in the fronds, but only in the fruiting fronds, of Asplenium trichomanes. They move almost as rapidly as the little leaflets of Desmodium gyrans, alternately backwards and forwards through from 20 to 40 degrees, in a plane at right angles to that of the frond. The apex of ...
— The Power of Movement in Plants • Charles Darwin


Words linked to "Trichomanes" :   Hymenophyllaceae, fern genus, Trichomanes speciosum, family Hymenophyllaceae, filmy fern, Trichomanes boschianum, genus Trichomanes, Trichomanes reniforme


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