hart's-tongue fern

Noun
  1. Tropical American terrestrial fern with leathery lanceolate fronds;
    Sometimes placed in genus Polybotrya (synset 113219380)
    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
    same as: hart's-tongue, olfersia cervina, polybotria cervina, polybotrya cervina
  2. Eurasian fern with simple lanceolate fronds (synset 113203954)
    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: asplenium, genus asplenium - in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae
    same as: asplenium scolopendrium, hart's-tongue, phyllitis scolopendrium
  3. Common epiphytic or sometimes terrestrial fern having pale yellow-green strap-shaped leaves;
    Florida to West Indies and Mexico and south to Uruguay (synset 113195721)
    is a type of: strap fern - fern with long narrow strap-shaped leaves
    same as: cow-tongue fern, florida strap fern

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