Meaning | Any of numerous usually tropical ferns having a thick woody stem or caudex and a crown of large fronds; found especially in Australia and New Zealand; chiefly of the families ... / families Cyatheaceae and Marattiaceae but some from Polypodiaceae. |
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Narrower | Scythian lamb, Cibotium barometz | Asiatic tree fern having dense matted hairs sometimes used as a styptic |
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angiopteris, giant fern, Angiopteris evecta | Highly variable species of very large primitive ferns of the Pacific tropical areas with high rainfall |
silver tree fern, sago fern, black tree fern, Cyathea medullaris | A showy tree fern of New Zealand and Australia having a crown of pinnated fronds with whitish undersides |
soft tree fern, Dicksonia antarctica | Of Australia and Tasmania |
thyrsopteris, Thyrsopteris elegans | A terrestrial tree fern of South America |
Broader | fern | Any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward |
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