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Difino
| • | Ophioglossum austroasiaticum'Ophioglossum azoricum'Ophioglossum californicum'Ophioglossum crotalophoroides'Ophioglossum engelmanii'Ophioglossum lusitanicum'Ophioglossum nudicaule'Ophioglossum palmatum'Ophioglossum pedunculosum'Ophioglossum petiolatum'Ophioglossum pusillum'Ophioglossum pycnosticum'Ophioglossum reticulatum'Ophioglossum tenerum'Ophioglossum thermale'Ophioglossum vulgatum
Ophioglossum (adder's-tongue') is a genus of about 25-30 species of ferns in the family Ophioglossaceae, with a cosmopolitan but primarily tropical and subtropical distribution. The name Ophioglossum comes form the Greek, and means "snake-tongue".
Adders-tongues are so-called because the spore-bearing stalk is thought to resemble a snake's tongue. Each plant typically sends up a small, undivided leaf blade with netted venation, and the spore stalk forks from the leaf stalk, terminating in sporangia which are partially concealed within a structure with slitted sides. The plant grows from a central, budding, fleshy structure with fleshy, radiating roots. When the leaf blade is present, there is not always a spore stalk present, and the plants do not always send up a leaf, sometimes going for a year to a period of years living only under the soil, nourished by association with soil fungi.
Ophioglossum'' has the highest chromosome count of any living organism, with 1260.
Ophioglossophyta
Source: [wikipedia: ophioglossum]
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ophioglossaceae:ophioglossopsida
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