#whisk_fern__whiskfern chiefly tropical clump-forming plants of skeletal appearance resembling whisk brooms; lacking roots
supertype: fern_ally pteridophytes of other classes than Filicopsida
subtype: skeleton_fork_fern pantropical epiphytic or terrestrial whisk fern with usually dull yellow branches and minute leaves; America; Japan; Australia
member of: genus_Psilotum__Psilotum type genus of the Psilotaceae
member of: family_Psilotaceae__Psilotaceae small family of lower ferns having nearly naked stems and minute scalelike leaves
member of: order_Psilotales__Psilotales lower vascular plants having dichotomously branched sporophyte divided into aerial shoot and rhizome and lacking true roots
member of: class_Psilopsida__Psilopsida__Psilotatae__class_Psilotatae whisk ferns; comprising the family Psilotaceae or Psilotatae: vascular plants with no roots, partial if any leaf differentiation, and rudimentary spore sacs
member of: division_Pteridophyta__Pteridophyta containing all the vascular plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, horsetails, club mosses, and whisk ferns; in some classifications considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta
member of: kingdom_Plantae__Plantae__plant_kingdom__plantkingdom taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants
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