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|accepted_name=Schizaea
|accepted_authority=Smith
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|place=5: 419, plate 9, fig. 9. 1793
|year=1793
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|common_names=Curly-grass fern
|basionyms=
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|hierarchy=Schizaeaceae;Schizaea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Schizaeaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Schizaea]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek schizein, split, i.e., split into narrow lobes
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>terrestrial. <b>Roots</b> blackish, very narrow, tangled, practically glabrous. <b>Stems</b> upright to reclining; hairs few celled, uniseriate. <b>Leaves</b> all fertile or dimorphic with some sterile, lacking blades, mainly unbranched, long-petioled. <b>Fertile</b> blades folded and fistlike or pectinate, pinnate, segments (digits) arising along rachis on distal 3–10 mm; sterile leaves straight or often curling. <b>Sporangia</b> in 2 rows. <b>Gametophytes</b> growing mixed with mosses, green (photosynthetic), delicately filamentous, lacking hairs. <b>x</b> = 77, 94, 103.</span><!--

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|distribution=Mainly tropical.
|discussion=<p>Species 10 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Schizaea
|author=Warren H. Wagner Jr.
|authority=Smith
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
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|family=Schizaeaceae
|distribution=Mainly tropical.
|reference=None
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|publication year=1793
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|genus=Schizaea
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