NOUN | plant | Pityrogramma, genus Pityrogramma | terrestrial tropical ferns having fronds with powdery yellowish or white undersides |
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Meaning | terrestrial tropical ferns having fronds with powdery yellowish or white undersides; sometimes placed in family ... / family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae. | |
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Synonym | genus Pityrogramma | |
Member of | Pteridaceae, family Pteridaceae | One of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems |
Members | gold fern, Pityrogramma chrysophylla | fern of West Indies and South America having fronds with bright golden-yellow undersides |
golden fern, Pityrogramma calomelanos aureoflava | Tropical American fern having fronds with light golden undersides | |
silver fern, Pityrogramma argentea | fern of southern tropical Africa having fronds with white undersides | |
silver fern, Pityrogramma calomelanos | Tropical American fern having fronds with white undersides | |
Broader | fern genus | genera of ferns and fern allies |
Spanish | genus pityrogramma, pityrogramma | |
Catalan | genus pityrogramma, pityrogramma |
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