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Fern s.l. (Pteridophyta)

      A fern is any one of a group of about 12,000 species of plants belonging to the botanical group known as Pteridophyta.Unlike mosses, they have xylem and phloem (making them vascular plants). They have stems, leaves, and roots like other vascular plants. Ferns reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. By far the largest group of ferns are the leptosporangiate ferns, but ferns as defined here (also called monilophytes) include horsetails, whisk ferns, marattioid ferns, and ophioglossoid ferns. The term pteridophyte also refers to ferns and a few other seedless vascular plants (see classification section below). A pteridologist is a specialist in the study of pteridophytes in a broader sense that includes the more distantly related lycophytes. Ferns first appear in the fossil record 360 million years ago in the Carboniferous but many of the current families and species did not appear until roughly 145 million years ago in the late Cretaceous (after flowering plants came to dominate many environments).

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Triletes spuriusKnobloch (1984), Pl. II, fig. 2 EK131
Triletes spuriusKnobloch (1984), Pl. I, fig. 1 EK114
Triletes spuriusKnobloch (1984), Pl. XV, fig. 10 EK76
Valvisisporites cladnensis Kalibová, 1959Kalíbová (1959), Tab. 4, fig. 1, 2 -(vz. 31 Fr. /96) YA1386
Valvisisporites nitens Kalibová, 1959Kalíbová (1959), Tab. 3, fig. 1(vz. 11 Km4/1534)foto YA1387
Verrutriletes compostipunctatusKnobloch (1984), Pl. V, fig. 4, 5 EK113
Verrutriletes compostipunctatusKnobloch (1984), Pl. XIII, fig. 3, 7 EK91
Verrutriletes compostipunctatusKnobloch (1984), Pl. VI, fig. 7, 8 EK138
Verrutriletes compostipunctatusKnobloch (1984), Pl. IV. , fig. 5 EK180
Verrutriletes compostipunctatusKnobloch (1984), Pl. IV, fig. 12 EK112
Verrutriletes compostipunctatusKnobloch (1984), Pl. V, fig. 6, 7 EK111
Verrutriletes compostipunctatusKnobloch (1984), Pl. IV, fig. 7 EK110
Verrutriletes compostipunctatusKnobloch (1984), Pl. VI, fig. 5, 6 EK140
Verrutriletes compostipunctatusKnobloch (1984), Pl. VI, fig. 1, 2 EK137
Verrutriletes compostipunctatusKnobloch (1984), Pl. V, fig. 8 EK124
Verrutriletes compostipunctatusKnobloch (1984), Pl. XIII, fig. 6, 9 EK84
Verrutriletes compostipunctatusKnobloch (1984), Pl. VII, fig. 1, 3 EK173
Verrutriletes compostipunctatusKnobloch (1984), Pl. VI, fig. 3, 4 EK136
Verrutriletes compostipunctatusKnobloch (1984), Pl. IV, fig. 3 EK183
Verrutriletes compostipunctatusKnobloch (1984), Pl. VI, fig. 9, 10 EK139

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