filmy fern

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any fern of the family Hymenophyllaceae, growing in humid regions and having thin translucent leaves

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Noun	1.	filmy fern - any fern of the genus Trichomanes having large pinnatifid often translucent fronds; most are epiphytic on tree branches and twigs or terrestrial on mossy banks bristle fern fern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores genus Trichomanes, Trichomanes - bristle ferns; kidney ferns hare's-foot bristle fern, Trichomanes boschianum - a variety of bristle fern Killarney fern, Trichomanes speciosum - large stout fern of extreme western Europe kidney fern, Trichomanes reniforme - large fern of New Zealand having kidney-shaped fronds
	2.	filmy fern - any fern of the genus Hymenophyllum growing in tropical humid regions and having translucent leaves film fern fern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores genus Hymenophyllum, Hymenophyllum - type genus of the Hymenophyllaceae: filmy ferns

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bristle fern
family Hymenophyllaceae
fern
fern family
fern genus
Filicales
film fern
genus Hymenophyllum
genus Trichomanes
hare's-foot bristle fern
Hymenophyllaceae
Hymenophyllum
kidney fern
Killarney fern
order Filicales
order Polypodiales
Polypodiales
Trichomanes
Trichomanes boschianum

Another problematic area is the filmy ferns and gleichenioid ferns, which may be sister taxa, although the support for this is weak (Pryer et al.

Phylogenetic Use of Inversions in Fern Chloroplast Genomes by Wolf, Paul G.; Duffy, Aaron M.; Roper, Jessie M. / American Fern Journal

Note: Hymenophyllum tayloriae Farrar & Raine, * TAYLOR'S or GORGE FILMY FERN (see Figure 14), which primarily occurs only as a gametophyte, is known from Lawrence, Winston and Franklin counties in northwest Alabama.

Pteridophytes of Northeast Alabama and adjacent highlands iv: ... by Spaulding, Daniel D.; Ballard, J. Mark; Whetstone, R. David / Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science

The authors have generally adopted the most recent classification/taxonomy available for a given genus, with only minor exceptions: filmy ferns are presented in the traditional two genera system, rather than the recently published 9-genus classification by Ebihara et al.

Flora de Nicaragua. Tomo 4. Helechos by Smith, Alan R. / American Fern Journal