NOUN | plant | umbrella fern, fan fern, Sticherus flabellatus, Gleichenia flabellata | large Australasian fern with fanlike repeatedly forked fronds |
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Meaning | large Australasian fern with fanlike repeatedly forked fronds; sometimes placed in genus Gleichenia. | |
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Synonyms | fan fern, Sticherus flabellatus, Gleichenia flabellata | |
Member of | Sticherus, genus Sticherus | umbrella ferns |
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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