“…Pteridophytes have evolved various morpho-anatomical features to adapt to terrestrial, xeric, epiphytic, rupicolous and aquatic environments ( Wylie, 1949 ; Zhang et al, 2013 ; Neira et al, 2017 ; Sârbu et al, 2017 ; Wetzel et al, 2017 ); this group is thus taxonomically, evolutionarily, and phylogenically diverse ( Kato & Imaichi, 1997 ; Li et al, 2013 ; Vasco, Moran & Ambrose, 2013 ; Plackett, Di Stilio & Langdale, 2015 ; Harrison & Morris, 2017 ; Huiet et al, 2018 ). Pteridophyte rhizomes have species-or group-specific stele, including the dictyostele of the Monachosorideae and the Polypodiaceae ( Jeffreys, 1903 ; Wardlaw, 1944 ; Wu et al, 1992 ; Srivastava & Chandra, 2009 ; Deroin & Rakotondrainibe, 2015 ; Nopun et al, 2016 ; Becari-Viana & Schwartsburd, 2017 ).…”