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|accepted_name=Cheiroglossa
|accepted_authority=C. Presl
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Suppl. Tent. Pterid.
|place=56. 1845
|year=1845
}}
|common_names=Hand fern;dwarf staghorn
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Ophioglossaceae;Cheiroglossa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Ophioglossaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cheiroglossa]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek cheir, hand, and glossa, tongue; in reference to the palmately lobed trophophores and the linear sporophores
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>epiphytic. <b>Roots</b> dichotomously divided at wide intervals, pale yellowish to brown, 1–1.5 mm diam., smooth, proliferous. <b>Stems</b> pendent, to 1.5 mm thick but appearing thicker because of persistent leaf bases, gemmae absent. <b>Trophophores</b> arching or pendent, blades stalked, palmately lobed, broadly fan-shaped, to 45 × 30 cm; margins entire; apex rounded to acute; veins anastomosing, major areoles very large, to 35 × 8 mm. <b>Sporophores</b> numerous, to 10, arising on each side of base of trophophore blade and apex of trophophore stalk. <b>Sporangial</b> clusters with sporangia in 2 rows embedded in compact, linear spike, apiculum absent. <b>Gametophytes</b> brown to white, cylindric, repeatedly branched, branches 2–20, 1–4 mm thick, and the whole ± stellate structure sometimes reaching 20 mm.</span><!--

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|distribution=Very scattered and local in tropics;North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa.
|discussion=<p><i>Cheiroglossa</i>, which is sometimes treated as a subgenus of <i>Ophioglossum</i>, is widely divergent from <i>Ophioglossum</i> in many characteristics, including the epiphytic habit, dichotomous roots, hairy stem apex, pendent and very large trophophore, palmately lobed blade, extremely large areoles, sporophores multiple and arising from sides of blade base, and the much branched gametophytes.</p><!--
--><p>Species 1 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Cheiroglossa
|author=Warren H. Wagner Jr.;Florence S. Wagner
|authority=C. Presl
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Ophioglossaceae
|distribution=Very scattered and local in tropics;North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa.
|reference=None
|publication title=Suppl. Tent. Pterid.
|publication year=1845
|special status=
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V2/V2_380.xml
|genus=Cheiroglossa
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