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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.

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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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