TY -JOUR AU -Bai-Ling Lin AU -Charles E. DeVol TI -The use of stipe characters in fern taxonomy II PY -1978 DA -0000-00-00 JO -Taiwania VL -23 IS -1 SP -77 EP -95 UR -https://taiwania.ntu.edu.tw/abstract/601 AB -Based on the study of Taiwan ferns, both the external and microscopic characters of fern stipes are described and discussed. Family and genus concepts are also considered in the sense of the vascular structures which include the number and shape of bundles, and the configuration of xylem strands in the stipe. DO -10.6165/tai.1978.23.77