| NOUN | plant | genus Pellaea, Pellaea | genus of chiefly small rock-loving ferns |
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| Meaning | genus of chiefly small rock-loving ferns; in some classification systems it is placed in the family ... / family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae. | |
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| Synonym | Pellaea | |
| Member of | Pteridaceae, family Pteridaceae | One of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems |
| Members | button fern, Pellaea rotundifolia | fern of New Zealand and Australia having trailing fronds with dark green buttonlike leaflets |
| cliff brake, cliff-brake, rock brake | Any of several small lithophytic ferns of tropical and warm temperate regions | |
| coffee fern, Pellaea andromedifolia | evergreen fern of California and Baja California | |
| Broader | fern genus | genera of ferns and fern allies |
| Spanish | genus pellaea, pellaea | |
| Catalan | genus pellaea, pellaea, Pellaea | |
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