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	Topics Moonwort Topic Home Moonworts are seedless vascular plantVascular plant Overview The vascular plants are plants in the Kingdom Plantae that have specialized tissues for conducting water.... s of the genus *Botrychium, sensu stricto. They are small, with fleshy rootRoot Summary In vascular plants, the root* is that organ of a plant body that typically lies below the surface of the soil .... s, and reproduce by sporeSpore In biology, a spore is a reproductive structure that is adapted for dispersion and surviving for extended periods of time in... s shed into the air. One part of the leaf is sterile and fernlike, the other fertile and carrying the clusters of sporangia or spore cases. Some species only occasionally emerge above ground and gain most of their nourishment from an association with mycorrhizal fungiFungus A fungus is a eukaryotic organism that digests its food externally and absorbs the nutrient molecules into its cells.... . They are unusual among tracheophytes ("higher plants") in that at least some species produce the sugarSugar In general use, non-scientists take "sugar" to mean sucrose, also called "table sugar" or saccharose, a white crystalline solid di... trehaloseTrehalose Trehalose, also known as mycose, is an alpha-linked sugar found extensively but not abundantly in nature.... . The circumscription of Botrychium is disputed between different authors; some botanists include the genera Botrypus and SceptridiumSceptridium *Sceptridium* is a genus of seedless vascular plants, closely allied to the genus Botrychium and also closely related ... within Botrychium, while others treat them as distinct. The latter treatment is provisionally followed here. Selected species Botrychium acuminatum – Pointed Moonwort Botrychium ascendens – Upswept Moonwort, Triangle-lobed Moonwort, Upward-lobed Moonwort Botrychium australe Botrychium boreale – Northern Moonwort Botrychium campestre – Prairie Moonwort, Prairie Dunewort Botrychium crenulatum – Crenulate Moonwort Botrychium dissectum – Lacy-leaved Grapefern, Cut-leaved Grapefern, Cut-leaved Moonwort Botrychium hesperium – Western Moonwort Botrychium lanceolatum – Lance-leaved Grapefern, Triangle Moonwort, Triangle Grapefern Botrychium lineare – Narrow-leaved Grapefern Botrychium lunaria – Common Moonwort, Grapefern Moonwort Botrychium lunarioides Botrychium matricariifolium – Daisy-leaved Moonwort, Matricary Grapefern, Matricary Moonwort, Chamomile Grapefern Botrychium minganense – Mingan's Moonwort Botrychium montanum – Mountain Moonwort Botrychium mormo – Little Goblin Moonwort Botrychium multifidumBotrychium multifidum Summary Botrychium multifidum is a species of fern known by the common names leathery grapefern and leathery moonwort... (syn. B. matricariae) – Leathery Grapefern Botrychium oneidense – Lake Oneida Grapefern, Blunt-lobed Grapefern Botrychium pallidum – Pale Moonwort Botrychium paradoxum – Peculiar Moonwort Botrychium pedunculosum – Stalked Moonwort Botrychium pinnatum – Northern Moonwort Botrychium pseudopinnatum – False Northwestern Moonwort, False Daisy-leaved Grapefern Botrychium rugulosum – St. Lawrence Grapefern, Rugulose Grapefern, Ternate Grapefern Botrychium simplex – Little Grapefern, Least Moonwort, Least Grapefern Botrychium socorrense Botrychium spathulatum – Spatulate Moonwort, Spoon-leaved Moonwort Botrychium ternatum Botrychium tunux Botrychium × watertonense Botrychium yaaxudakeit