Notes on Protoleptosporangidae | Plants

The Protoleptosporangidae or the Osmundidae comprising of the single order Osmundales with the single family Osmundaceae is taken out of the Leptosporangiates as proposed by Hirmer (1927) as it is not truly leptosporangiate. The Osmundales is a very ancient order represented by Thamnopteris and Zalesskya from late Permian and by Osmundites itself from Jurassic onwards. The climax of the group [...]