| COSTA RICA: Puntarenas:: Coto Brus Wilson Botanical Garden 1100 m, 2008. |
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Gametophyte with sporeling leaves. The leaves emerge through the gametophyte tissue, not from the undersurface then up and around the sides, because the embry is endoscopic. Among ferns, endoscopic embryos occur only in the Marattiaceae.
| Copyright © 2008 by Robbin Moran
(contact: kcn2[at]cornell.edu)
[ref. DOL30400]
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