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|accepted_name=Psilotum
|accepted_authority=Swartz
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=J. Bot. (Schrader)
|place=1800(2): 8, 109. 1801
|year=1801
}}
|common_names=Whisk-fern
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Psilotaceae;Psilotum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Psilotaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Psilotum]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek psilos, naked, referring to the plant's leafless aerial shoots
|volume=Volume 2
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|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>terrestrial, sometimes epiphytic. <b>Aerial</b> shoots often clumped, simple proximally, dichotomously branched distally, 3(–several)-ridged. <b>Appendages</b> minute, bractlike, borne distally on ridges of aerial shoots, sterile appendages subulate, those subtending synangia 2-lobed. <b>Synangia</b> ± globose, obscurely 3-lobed.</span><!--

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|distribution=Tropical and warm temperate regions.
|discussion=<p>Species 2 or 3 (1 in the flora).</p>
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|authority=Swartz
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|distribution=Tropical and warm temperate regions.
|reference=None
|publication title=J. Bot. (Schrader)
|publication year=1801
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|genus=Psilotum
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