• Korean Journal of Plant Taxonomy
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.459-476
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• 2008

Taxonomic characteristics of spores of 17 species belonging to 6 genera of the Korean Thelypteridaceae are examined. Description of each species and key to the species are provided. Spores of Korean Thelypteridaceae are monad and monolete with bilateral symmetry. Perispore, the sporoderm of spore, was found in all the species examined. The perispores and exospores of Thelypteris japonica var. japonica, T. japonica var. glabrata and Pseudocyclosorus subochthodes are much similar to each other, but the rest of taxa examined shows diverse patterns of the surface ornamentation of perispores and exopores enough to distinguish genera and sometimes to distinguish species in some genera. Previous study reported that perispore is not easily distinguished from exospore in Cyclosorus and Leptogramma. However, three species of Cyclosorus examined here show different pattern having scabrate or verrucate exospores and cristate or echinate perispores. Leptogramma pozoi ssp. mollisima also have echinate perispore and fossulate exospore. Macrothelypteris oligophlebia var. elegans and M. viridifrons have scabrate exospore which is contrast to previous report of reticulate exospore. Thelypteris glanduligera, T. angustifrons and T. laxa show same patterns of perispore and exospore with reticulate perispore and fossulate exospore and hence cannot be distinguished by spores only.

• Korean Journal of Plant Taxonomy
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.1-19
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• 2006

Description of spore morphology of Korean Polypodiaceae has on LM and SEM and key to the genera are provided. Korean Polypodiaceae monad, monolete with bilateral symmetry, bipolar and oblete spore except for Loxogramme grammitoides having trilete spore with radial symmetry. In spore wall structure, exopore showed variable patterns enough to distinguish genera. Perispore was found in all the species examined. The patternof perispore and exospore was most similar in all the species examined except Crypsinus, Pyrrosia hastata ans P. linearifolia. The perispores of Crypsinus, Pyrrosia hastata and P. linearifolia were echinate and gemmate, rugulate, and verrucate respectively. In term of exospore wall sculpturing, Polypodium and Loxogramme showed fossulate, Lepisorus, rugulate with irregular verrucate, Crypsinus ans Coloysis showed psilate or rarely verrucate in the latter, Neocheiropteris ensata showed dense small verrucate, Lemmaphyllum microphyllum showed complex reticulate and Pyrrosia showed verrucate or psilate.