Australian Biological Resources Study
Fern definitions mostly compiled by Mary D.Tindale
(definitions of conifer terms provided by K.D.Hill)
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baculate: of a spore, having pillar-like processes, always longer than broad and higher than 1 µm.
basiscopic: pointing towards the base. cf. acroscopic.
bathyphyll: a basal lamina in some high-climbing ferns in Lomariopsis and related genera. cf. acrophyll.
bisculptate: of spores, with two different elements in the ornamentation, which cover the entire surface, as in the spores of some species of Pyrrosia.
bordered pit: a pit (q.v.) in which the margin projects over the thin closing membrane, as in coniferous wood.
brachyblast: a short lateral branch.
bristle: a stiff hair which is more than one cell broad at the base.
bulbiferous: bearing bulbils.
bulbil: a small bud formed on the lamina; a mode of vegetative reproduction.
bullate: having a blistered or puckered surface.