Walking maidenhair fern (Adiantum philippense)

Walking maidenhair fern (Adiantum philippense) is a species in the Pteridaceae, suplir with tendrils tend to be unbranched, arising from a spreading rhizome, dangling or slightly erect, stalks are black and smooth.

The leaves are bright green, slightly round in shape when they are small, but become half-moon-shaped when they are large. Flat surface. Sori at the edges and protected by leaf edge folds.

Walking maidenhair fern grows to form colonies, easy to grow in lowlands to highlands, damp places, banks of ditches or rivers, cliffs, rock fractures or walls.

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Subclass: Polypodiidae
Order: Polypodiales
Suborder: Pteridineae
Family: Pteridaceae
Subfamily: Vittarioideae
Genus: Adiantum
Species: Adiantum philippense
Subspecies: Adiantum philippense ssp. intermedium, Adiantum philippense ssp. philippense, Adiantum philippense ssp. teestae

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