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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gleichenia Flabellata

Glaucomys sabrinus
Glaucomys volans
Glaux
Glaux maritima
Glc
Gleason's score
Gleason's tumour grade
Glechoma
Glechoma hederaceae
Gleditsia
Gleditsia aquatica
Gleditsia triacanthos
Gleek
Gleeks
Gleichenia
Gleichenia flabellata (current term)
Gleicheniaceae
Gleichschaltung
Glen
Glen Gebhard
Glenda
Glenda Jackson
Glendale
Glendower
Glengarry
Glenn
Glenn's operation
Glenn Curtiss
Glenn Hammond Curtiss
Glenn Miller

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 ..."

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