| | Cyatheales -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | The order Cyatheales is a taxonomic division of the fern ((Containing all the vascular plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, horsetails, club mosses, and whisk ferns; in some classifications considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta) Division Pteridophyta) subclass, Cyatheatae, which includes the Tree ferns. |
 | | Like all ferns, tree ferns reproduce by means of (A small usually single-celled reproductive body produced by many plants and some protozoans and that develops into a new individual) spores developed in (additional info and facts about sporangia) sporangia on the undersides of the fronds. |
 | | The families that constitute Cyatheales have been relatively firmly established as a monophyletic clade by ((biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix; associated with the transmission of genetic information) DNA sequencing and morphological studies. |
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