brittle maidenhair fern

Synonyms:

Adiantum tenerum, brittle maidenhair

Types:

Adiantum tenerum farleyense, Barbados maidenhair, Farley maidenhair, Farley maidenhair fern, glory fern

named for a country house in Barbados where it was discovered

Type of:

maidenhair, maidenhair fern

any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds