maidenhair

Synonyms:

maidenhair fern

Types:

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Adiantum capillus-veneris, Venus maidenhair, Venus'-hair fern, Venushair, common maidenhair, southern maidenhair

delicate maidenhair fern with slender shining black leaf stalks; cosmopolitan

Adiantum pedatum, American maidenhair fern, five-fingered maidenhair fern

hardy palmately branched North American fern with divergent recurved branches borne on lustrous dark reddish stipes

Adiantum bellum, Bermuda maidenhair, Bermuda maidenhair fern

delicate endemic Bermudian fern with creeping rootstock

Adiantum tenerum, brittle maidenhair, brittle maidenhair fern

tropical American fern with broad pinnae; widely cultivated

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:

fern

any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores