cliff-brake
Noun
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Any of several small lithophytic ferns of tropical and warm temperate regions (synset 113232688)
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:
- coffee fern, pellaea andromedifolia - evergreen fern of California and Baja California
- pellaea atropurpurea, purple rock brake - very short shallowly creeping North American fern usually growing on cliffs or walls and having dark glossy leaf axes
- bird's-foot fern, pellaea mucronata, pellaea ornithopus - cliff brake of California and Baja California having purple-brown leafstalks
belongs to: genus pellaea, pellaea - genus of chiefly small rock-loving ferns; in some classification systems it is placed in the family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceaesame as: cliff brake, rock brake
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