115.200 Ophioglossum L.

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Description of the genus

Rhizome globose, subglobose or elongated, fleshy. Fronds devided into a simple leaflike fragment (trophophore) and a simple fertile segment (sporophore), inserted at base of the sterile segment or on the petiole, with a double row of sporangia in a spike near the apex.

Derivation of name: ophis: snake, glossa: tongue; an allusion to the slender, sometimes forked apex above the fertile spike.

Worldwide: c. 30-50 species, cosmopolitan distribution

Botswana: 3 taxa.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
costatum R.Br.		Description, Image
lancifolium C. Presl		Description
polyphyllum A.Braun[Agg]	N,SW	Description, Image

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Flora of Zambia: Ophioglossum
Flora of Zimbabwe: Ophioglossum

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