terrestrial plant with no flowers or bulbs sporangia present
Herbs reproducing by spores released directly from sporangia, the sporangia variously located [on abaxial leaf face, [LYCOPHYTES and FERNS]
veins free-fused
leaf blade deltate-ovate, sori generally ± sunken, round to generally ovate
DESCRIPTION
California native perennial fern grows in shaded places, cliff bluffs,rocks, not on plants, usually granite or volcanic. Summer deciduous
Rhizome: long-creeping, lanceolate brown scales,
Petiole/Stipe
Blade: deltate to ovate, midrib adaxially hairy, segments serrate, tips obtuse to acute, veins generally 10--50% fused.
Sori: exindusiate, sunken, round to generally ovate, somtimes has glandular hairs, yellow spores
family dgined by sori exindusiate
Funfact: The genus is mainly epiphytic , meaning grows on rocks and trees of the ground. Poly pod means many foot describe the knobby foot/base they usually have obvioius in species like staghorn ferns. The genus polypod is also distinguished by having exindusiate sori
