button fern

Noun
  1. Fern of New Zealand and Australia having trailing fronds with dark green buttonlike leaflets (synset 113233457)
    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 spores
    belongs to: genus pellaea, pellaea - genus of chiefly small rock-loving ferns; in some classification systems it is placed in the family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae
    same as: pellaea rotundifolia
  2. Jamaican fern having round buttonlike bulbils (synset 113222321)
    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 spores
    belongs to: genus tectaria, tectaria - terrestrial or epilithic ferns of tropical rain forests
    same as: tectaria cicutaria

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