Schizaeaceae

3-432.17.00IntroductionSchizaeaceae : Comb ferns; Curlygrass fern.
Lygodiaceae: Climbing ferns.
Clades: Equisetales; Equisetidae; Equisetanae; Pteridophyta; Plants.
Members: 3 genera: Actinostachys, Schizaea, Lygodium; ± 65 species.
Regions: Old and New World, Eastern USA, Chile, Falkland Islands, Pacific islands, New Caledonia, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, South Africa.
Habitat: tropics, several in temperate regions.TaxonomyIn the PPG1 classification Schizaeaceae is placed in the order Schizaeales, together with Anemiaceae and Lygodiaceae.
Smith placed Schizaeales in the leptosporangiate ferns, class Polypodianae, with three families, Anemiaceae, Lygodiaceae, and Schizaeaceae, in 2006. In 2011 Christenhusz placed Schizaeales in subclass Polypodiidae, with the same three families. In 2014 Christenhusz and Chase placed all members of the Schizaeales in a more broadly defined Schizaeaceae, reducing the three existing families to subfamilies as Anemioideae, Lygodioideae, and Schizaeoideae, as has been done in the past.Plant theoryIn the Plant theory Schizaeaceae is included with Lygodiaceae and placed as a family in the order Equisetales, in subphase 7. Anemiaceae is placed in subphase 7 in Cyatheales.BotanyIdentification: non-fern-like appearance.
Ferns; small.
Leaves: forking; dimorphic, fertile and sterile fronds; lack well-defined sori.
Sporangia: single-layered with annulus: leptosporangia; annulus horizontal, transverse, lying below and completely encircles the top of the sporangium; subapical opening by longitudinal slit.
Sporangia: with a horizontal annulus that lies below and completely encircles the top of the sporangium. sporangia are borne on specialised pinnae, distinct from ordinary vegetative pinnae; pinnae form small comb-like, pinnate structures on which the sporangia are formed.Botany LygodiaceaeFerns; climbing; vines; ferny look.
Leaves: dimorphic, fertile and sterile fronds; lack well-defined sori; with indeterminate growth; rachis is long, thin, flexible, twining around supports; 3 to 12 m long.
Sporangia: with a horizontal annulus that lies below and completely encircles the top of the sporangium.EssenceThis personality feels lost in the world. He feel lonely, but makes the best of it by retiring from the world. This can arise form being unwanted as a child by their parents. They can be given away as an orphan. Or their parents were absent due to disease, addictions and so on.MindAggression, temper tantrums.
Auto-aggression, biting, cutting or hitting oneself.BodyNervous: epilepsy, tics.Stages RemediesSchizaeaceae: Actinostachys, Schizaea.
Lygodiaceae: Lygodium; 40 species.
1 Lygodium japonicum
15 Actinostachys pennula
16 Schizaea bifida
17 Schizaea fistulosa
x Schizaea dichotoma