Habit: Rhizome short-creeping.
Leaf: of 2 kinds, fertile > sterile, with much narrower pinnae or lobes; adjacent pinnae fused at their junction with rachis, lower pinnae gradually reduced; veins of sterile leaves free.
Species In Genus: 5 species: north-temperate, especially China, Japan.
Etymology: (Latin/Greek: ostrich fern)
Note: Struthiopteris is relatively isolated in Blechnaceae, more closely related to the monotypic genera
Blechnidium and (possibly)
Brainea than to
Blechnum (de Gaspar et al. 2016 Cladistics in press).
Jepson eFlora Author: Carl J. Rothfels, John C. Game, Alan R. Smith & Thomas Lemieux
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)
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