Osmundaceae Family “The Royal Fern Family” (AKA “The Cinnamon Fern Family”) By: Levi Eggermont

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Family Notes 3 genera, 16-36 species. Herbs with upright aerial or horizontal subterranean, dichotomously branched stems; scales absent. Leaves alternate, large, one or more times pinnate, either dimorphic, or some leaves differentiated into fertile and sterile segments. Sporangia large and stalked.