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Description: Characteristics of the genus and detailed description of the Maidenhair Fern, Adiantum capillus-veneris, with photographs.
Ferns in Britain and Ireland - Adiantum Ferns and Horsetails (Monilophytes) Clubmosses and Quillworts (Lycophytes) Rhizome creeping or erect, with narrow, dark scales; stipe black to reddish brown, fine, shiny, rounded; frond 1-4 pinnate (more so in a few species), pinnules variously shaped, from round to oblong to fan-shaped; sori at margins of leaf segments; indusium formed from folded over end of leaf segment - the sori are actually born on the underside of this false indusium.
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