Adiantum diaphanum
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| Adiantum diaphanum | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Pteridophyta |
| Class: | Pteridopsida |
| Order: | Polypodiales[1] |
| Family: | Pteridaceae[1] |
| Subfamily: | Vittarioideae[1] |
| Genus: | Adiantum |
| Species: | A. diaphanum |
| Binomial name | |
| Adiantum diaphanum Blume |
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Adiantum diaphanum, the filmy maidenhair fern, is a species of fern in the genus Adiantum, native to East Asia and Australasia, from southern Japan south to New Zealand. It grows to 20 cm long at the most, with very dark green fronds covered with bristles.
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Christenhusz et al., 2011 Maarten J. M. Christenhusz, Xian-Chun Zhang & Herald Scheider: "A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns," Phytotaxa, 19: 7-54 (18 Feb. 2011)
