Wright'S Flowering Fern

(Anemia wrightii)

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Description

Fern with a creeping, hairy underground stem and twovery different types of fronds. Sterile fronds with blade to 2 .5 inches long, divided into 4 - 8 deeply toothed, widely spaced, hairy leaflets and several small wedge-shaped leaflets crowded at the top. Fertile fronds twice as long as the sterile fronds with tight, branched clusters of sporangia neartop of stalk.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Pteridophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order:Schizaeales
Family:Anemiaceae
Genus:Anemia
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