shield fern
See also: shieldfern
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the shape of the indusia that cover the fern's sori (spores).
Noun
[edit]shield fern (plural shield ferns)
- Certain ferns with elements of shield-like appearance, principally of four genera:
- Dryopteris (buckler ferns)
- Lastreopsis spp.
- Polystichum spp.
- (Australia) Sticherus spp.
Derived terms
[edit]- Alaska shield fern (Polystichum setigerum)
- Anderson's shield fern (Polystichum andersonii)
- black shield fern (Polystichum neozelandicum)
- blue shield fern (Polystichum oculatum)
- California shield fern (Polystichum californicum)
- climbing shield fern (Rumohra adiantiformis)
- creeping shield fern (Parapolystichum microsorum)
- crested shield fern (Dryopteris cristata)
- Dudley's shield fern (Polystichum dudleyi)
- forest shield fern (Polystichum pungens)
- glossy shield fern (Lastreopsis marginans)
- golden shield fern (Dryopteris affinis)
- hard shield fern (Polystichum aculeatum)
- Japanese shield fern (Dryopteris erythrosora, Polystichum polyblepharon)
- leathery shield fern (Rumohra adiantiformis)
- mother shield-fern (Polystichum proliferum)
- narrow spinulose shield fern (Dryopteris carthusiana)
- prickly shield fern (Polystichum vestitum, Arachniodes aristata)
- shiny shield fern (Parapolystichum acuminatum)
- smooth shield fern (Parapolystichum glabellum)
- soft shield fern (Polystichum setiferum)
- southern shield fern (Pelazoneuron kunthii)
- swamp shield-fern (Cyclosorus interruptus)
- Tsushima rock fern (Polystichum luctuosum)
Translations
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “shield fern”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “shield fern”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
shield fern on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
