Botrychium


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Noun1.Botrychium - grape fernBotrychium - grape fern; moonwort      
family Ophioglossaceae, Ophioglossaceae - a family of succulent ferns of order Ophioglossales; cosmopolitan in distribution
grape fern - a fern of the genus Botrychium having a fertile frond bearing small grapelike clusters of spore cases
fern genus - genera of ferns and fern allies
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Some species prefer short grasslands, at somewhat lower altitude, including club mosses, the hairy stonecrop (Sedum villosum), Mountain Avens (Dryas octopetala), and the Alpine Moonwort (Botrychium nivalis), which only grows two inches high.
Molecular study of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi colonizing the sporophyte of the eusporangiate rattlesnake fern (Botrychium virginianum, Ophioglossaceae).
En el estrato herbaceo destacan Achimenes grandiflora, Arisaema macrospathum, Aulosepalum ramentaceum, Begonia incarnata, Botrychium schaffneri, Ceratozamia mexicana var.
Robins.) Windham OPHIOGLOSSACEAE (Grapefern Family) Botrychium campestre W.
Influence of exotic earthworms on the soil organic horizon and the rare fern Botrychium mormo.
Botrychium biternatum (Savigny) Underw., southern grape fern, 1906.
An unusual study reports that the goblin fern (Botrychium mormo), an elusive species that pokes up from thick leaf litter on a forest floor, has disappeared from 9 out of 28 patches surveyed in Minnesota's Chippewa National Forest.