whisk fern

An epiphytic vascular plant (Psilotum nudum) of subtropical and tropical North and Central America, Asia, and Africa, having leafless green branching stems that bear spores.

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whisk fern - chiefly tropical clump-forming plants of skeletal appearance resembling whisk brooms; lacking roots

fern ally - pteridophytes of other classes than Filicopsida

genus Psilotum, Psilotum - type genus of the Psilotaceae

Psilotum nudum, skeleton fork fern - pantropical epiphytic or terrestrial whisk fern with usually dull yellow branches and minute leaves; America; Japan; Australia

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The Garden Of The Groves, eight miles from Freeport, has a collection of native and non-native plants that include the whisk fern, said to be one of our oldest surviving plants.

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