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Definition of Gleichenia flabellata
1. Noun. Large Australasian fern with fanlike repeatedly forked fronds; sometimes placed in genus Gleichenia.
Exact synonyms: Fan Fern, Sticherus Flabellatus, Umbrella Fern
Generic synonyms: Fern
Group relationships: Genus Sticherus, Sticherus
Generic synonyms: Fern
Group relationships: Genus Sticherus, Sticherus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gleichenia Flabellata
Literary usage of Gleichenia flabellata
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"Gleichenia flabellata holds a middle position between these two types as regards
size and shape of the sporangium, but in the number of spores produced in ..."
2. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"Fan F.— Gleichenia flabellata, R. Br. Golden Swamp F.— Acrostichum aureum, Linn.
Grass-leaved F. (qv)— Vittaria ..."