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|accepted_name=Matteuccia
|accepted_authority=Todaro
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Giorn. Sci. Nat. Econ. Palermo
|place=1: 235. 1866, name conserved Ostrich fern [for Car. 1800
|year=1800
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|common_names=Ostrich fern
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Dryopteridaceae;Matteuccia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Dryopteridaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Matteuccia]]</div></div>
|etymology=for Car 1863, physicist at the University of Florence, Italy
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>terrestrial. <b>Stems</b> obliquely ascending to erect, stolons present or absent, not wiry. <b>Leaves</b> strongly dimorphic, sterile leaves with longer and wider pinnae than fertile ones, sterile dying back in winter, fertile persistent, brownish, hardened. <b>Petiole</b> of sterile leaf ca. 1/10–1/5 length of blade, petiole of fertile leaf ± equaling length of blade, bases swollen, persisting as trophopods over winter; vascular bundles 2, lateral, lunate in cross section. <b>Blade</b> elliptic (sterile) or narrowly oblong to oblanceolate (fertile), pinnate-pinnatifid or sometimes pinnate with lacerate pinnae in fertile leaves, gradually to nearly abruptly reduced distally to pinnatifid apex, sterile blades herbaceous. <b>Pinnae</b> not articulate to rachis, segment margins entire (sterile); proximal pinnae (several pairs) greatly reduced, sessile, equilateral; costae shallowly grooved adaxially, grooves not continuous from rachis to costae; indument absent on both surfaces or deciduously hairy abaxially. <b>Veins</b> free, simple. <b>Sori</b> in 1 row between midrib and margin, ± round, covered by hardened revolute pinna margin; indusia vestigial, triangular, persistent but not easily seen in mature leaves. <b>Spores</b> greenish, with low folds and minute echinate-cristate elements. <b>x</b> = 40.</span><!--

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|distribution=North temperate regions.
|discussion=<p><i>Matteuccia</i> is one of several genera known to store starch grains in long-persistent petiole bases (trophopods) (W. H. Wagner Jr. and D. M. Johnson 1983). Struthiopteris Willdenow is a later homonym of Struthiopteris Scopoli and hence illegitimate. Pteretis Rafinesque, even though it is the oldest legitimate name, has been rejected in favor of <i>Matteuccia</i>.</p><!--
--><p>Species 3 (1 in the flora).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=aderkas1984a
|text=Aderkas, P. 1984. Economic history of ostrich fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris, the edible fiddlehead. Econ. Bot. 38: 14--23.
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|id=fernald1935a
|text=Fernald, M. L. 1935. Critical plants of the upper Great Lakes region of Ontario and Michigan. Rhodora 37: 197--222.
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|id=hill1974a
|text=Hill, R. W. and W. H. Wagner Jr. 1974. Seasonality and spore type of pteridophytes in Michigan. Michigan Bot. 13: 40--44.
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|id=lloyd1970a
|text=Lloyd, R. M. and E. J. Klekowski Jr. 1970. Spore germination and viability in Pteridophyta: Evolutionary significance of chlorophyllous spores. Biotropica 2: 129--137. Von
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|id=lloyd1971a
|text=Lloyd, R. M. 1971. Systematics of the onocleoid ferns. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 61: 1--86, 5 plates.
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|id=wagner1983b
|text=Wagner, W. H. Jr. and D. M. Johnson. 1983. Trophopod, a commonly overlooked storage structure of potential systematic value in ferns. Taxon 32: 268--269.
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name=Matteuccia
|author=David M. Johnson
|authority=Todaro
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Dryopteridaceae
|distribution=North temperate regions.
|reference=aderkas1984a;fernald1935a;hill1974a;lloyd1970a;lloyd1971a;wagner1983b
|publication title=Giorn. Sci. Nat. Econ. Palermo
|publication year=1800
|special status=
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|genus=Matteuccia
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