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Taxa
Ceratopteris thalictroides
Nomenclature
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Family: PteridaceaeGenus: Ceratopteris
Species:
Ceratopteris thalictroides
SUMMARY
Ceratopteris thalictroides (L.) Brogn. , common name is watersprite and water fern horn (university of florida). Ceratopteris thalictroides is apart of the Pteridaceae family (Van da Berg, 2004). This plant is aquatic to semi aquatic annual rhizomatous, perennial, herb (fern) (Spooner, 1997). It is commonly found in swamps, bogs, canals, ponds, lakes, ditches, marshes. The fern is a floating or rooted type of plant. Highly variable leaf shapes and ball-like sporangia on some emersed leaves. Reproduce by spores, not flowers (Van da Berg, 2004)
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