Mickelia

Mickelia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Pteridophyta
Class:	Polypodiopsida/Pteridopsida (disputed)
Order:	Polypodiales
Family:	Dryopteridaceae
Subfamily:	Elaphoglossoideae
Genus:	Mickelia R.C. Moran, Labiak, & Sundue
Type species
Mickelia nicotianifolia (Olof Swartz) R.C. Moran, Labiak, & Sundue
Species
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Mickelia is a genus of ferns in the family Dryopteridaceae. It is one of the six genera of bolbitidoid ferns and is sister to the very large genus Elaphoglossum. It consists of 10 species. All are native to the neotropics.

Hemiepiphytic or terrestrial ferns. Rhizomes dorsiventral, the ventral meristele elongate in cross section. Phyllopodia absent. Leaves articulate at base or continuous with the rhizome, dimorphic as sporophylls and trophophylls, the sporophylls having longer petioles and smaller pinnae. Fronds never differentiated into bathyphylls and acrophylls as in the bolbitidoid genera Lomagramma, Arthrobotrya, and Teratophyllum. Fronds singly pinnate or bipinnate with a single, free, basal segment on each of the basal pinnae. Pinnae articulate or continuous with the rachis; terminal pinna conform (similar in size and shape to the lateral pinnae). Veins variously anastomosing (not free); veinlets usually included in the areoles. Sori acrostichoid (covering the entire abaxial surface of the leaf); Paraphyses absent. Spores monolete.