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Up-to-date information about California vascular plants is available from the Jepson eFlora.
Names are linked to treatments from the Manual
Key to OPHIOGLOSSACEAE
N.B.: couplets are linked, e.g., 1. is linked to 1'.
1. Sterile and fertile leaf parts compound (rarely small, simple, entire); sterile leaf part generally midribbed, veins free, forked; sporangia not sunken in axis; roots without bulblets or plantlets
1' Sterile and fertile leaf parts simple, entire; sterile leaf part not midribbed, veins netted with included veinlets; sporangia sunken in axis; roots often with bulblets or plantlets