NOUN | plant | basket fern, toothed sword fern, Nephrolepis pectinata | tropical American fern cultivated for its finely divided greyish-green foliage |
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plant | basket fern, Drynaria rigidula | giant epiphytic or lithophytic fern |
Meaning | Tropical American fern cultivated for its finely divided greyish-green foliage; West Indies and southern Mexico to Peru and Brazil. | |
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Synonyms | toothed sword fern, Nephrolepis pectinata | |
Broader | sword fern | Any of several tropical ferns having more or less sword-shaped fronds including one from which the Boston fern developed |
Meaning | giant epiphytic or lithophytic fern; Asia to Polynesia and Australia. | |
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Synonym | Drynaria rigidula | |
Member of | Drynaria, genus Drynaria | large robust epiphytic ferns of tropical forest / forest and scrub |
Broader | fern | Any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward |
Spanish | drynaria rigidula, helecho de espada |
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