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|accepted_name=Bommeria
|accepted_authority=E. Fournier in Baillon
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in Baillon,Dict. Bot.
|place=1: 448. 1877 [Named for the Belgian pteridologist. 1829
|year=1829
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|basionyms=
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|hierarchy=Pteridaceae;Bommeria
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Pteridaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Bommeria]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>terrestrial. <b>Stems</b> prostrate, long-creeping, often branched [short, seldom branched]; scales pale brown to yellowish, lanceolate, concolored, margins entire. <b>Leaves</b> monomorphic, scattered, 4–30 cm. <b>Petiole</b> chestnut brown to dark purple, rounded or with single groove adaxially, indument of scales and/or trichomes, especially proximally and distally, with single vascular bundle. <b>Blade</b> pentagonal, pedately divided into 3 segments, deeply pinnate-pinnatifid, herbaceous, abaxially with scales, unicellular coiled trichomes, and unicellular needlelike trichomes, adaxially dull, not striate, with unicellular needlelike trichomes; rachis straight. <b>Segments</b> of blade sessile, 1–3(–5) mm wide, distal segment 1–2-pinnatifid in proximal portion, pinnatifid in distal portion; proximal segments usually connected to distal by narrow wing along rachis, inequilaterally elongate-deltate, proximal basiscopic portion elongate, 1–2-pinnatifid; margins not recurved to form false indusia. <b>Veins</b> in segments obscure, free to anastomosing, pinnately branched and divergent distally. <b>False</b> indusia absent. <b>Sporangia</b> borne along veins, covering most veins or somewhat marginally restricted, containing 64 [32] spores, paraphyses and glands absent. <b>Spores</b> brown, globose, trilete, exospore smooth, perispore surfaces crested or reticulate, equatorial flange absent. <b>x</b> = 30.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Mexico;Central America.
|discussion=<p>Species 5 (1 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=gastony1976a
|text=Gastony, G. J. and C. H. Haufler. 1976. Chromosome numbers and apomixis in the fern genus Bommeria. Biotropica 8: 1--11.
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|id=haufler1979a
|text=Haufler, C. H. 1979. A biosystematic revision of Bommeria. J. Arnold Arbor. 60: 445--476.
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name=Bommeria
|author=Christopher H. Haufler
|authority=E. Fournier in Baillon
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Pteridaceae
|distribution=North America;Mexico;Central America.
|reference=gastony1976a;haufler1979a
|publication title=in Baillon,Dict. Bot.
|publication year=1829
|special status=
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|genus=Bommeria
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