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Stem erect or ascending, small, seldom to frequently branched, siphonostelic, or nearly so, rather indurated, bearing scales; leaves ca. 10–40 cm long, pinnate, thin and lacking stomates, circinate in the bud, petiole base without stipules; sporangia borne in marginal sori on a short receptacle, enclosed by a bivalved indusium, subsessile, with an oblique annulus not interrupted by the stalk; homosporous, spores lacking chlorophyll. Gametophyte not known.
Hymenophyllopsidaceae Pic.-Ser., Webbia 24: 712. 1970. Type: Hymenophyllopsis Goebel.
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Goebel, K. 1929. Archegoniatenstudien, XVIII. Roraimafarne (1. Hymenophyllopsis dejecta n.g.). Flora 124 (n.f. 24): 3–21.
Vareschi, V. 1958. Hymenophyllopsis universitatis. Acta Biol. Venez. 2: 151–162.
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Tryon, R.M., Tryon, A.F. (1982). Hymenophyllopsidaceae. In: Ferns and Allied Plants. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8162-4_9
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