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Asterotheca

Asterotheca
Photo: After various authors in Scott, Studies., Public domain

Asterotheca is an extinct genus of seedless, spore-bearing fern known only from fossils, dating from the Carboniferous to the Triassic. It cannot be grown as a living garden or houseplant, so care fields do not apply.

Family
Asterothecaceae (Asterothec family)
Grows as
Fern

About

Asterotheca is a genus of extinct seedless, spore-bearing, vascularized ferns dating from the Carboniferous of the Paleozoic to the Triassic of the Mesozoic.

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Asterotheca by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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