beech fern
Noun
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is a type of: fern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by sporessubtypes:
- broad beech fern, dryopteris hexagonoptera, phegopteris hexagonoptera, southern beech fern, thelypteris hexagonoptera - beech fern of North American woodlands having straw-colored stripes
- dryopteris phegopteris, long beech fern, narrow beech fern, northern beech fern, phegopteris connectilis, thelypteris phegopteris - beech fern of North America and Eurasia
belongs to: genus phegopteris, phegopteris - beech ferns: genus is variously classified: considered alternative name for genus Dryopteris or included in genus Thelypteris
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