作者

SHIEH, WANG-CHUENG and DEVOL, CHARLES E.

型態特徵

Eusporangiate, succulent herbs, usually terrestrial (1-2 genera epiphytic); caudex fleshy, short or rhizome fleshy creeping; roots long, fleshy. Fronds simple, pinnate or ternate, not circinnate; fertile segment brandching from sterile frond. Sporangia borne in a simple or compound spike. Gametophytes of terrestrial speciies subterranean, fleshy, containing endophytic fungi.

屬

A family of five genera and 90 species, four genera in Taiwan.

參考文獻

• SHIEH, WANG-CHUENG and DEVOL, CHARLES E., Flora of Taiwan, second edition 1: 63. 1994.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)