Several fern species are known to exist over parts of their range as gametophytes only, without development of the sporophyte stage of their life cycle.Gametophytes of Hymenophyllum wrightii Bosch have been collected at the "Appalachian Gametophyte"."
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Farrar et al. (1991) studied this question.
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