Look up: Dicksonia

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   Dicksonia
   (Man Fern, Soft Tree Fern) These Ferns, commonly called Man Fern, Soft Tree Fern and Tree Fern, are found in tropical America, New Zealand and Australia. These Ferns can reach a height of 40 feet with a spread of 12 feet. D. antarctica is a trunk-forming Fern that grows up to 30 feet high. It has evergreen or semi-evergreen, long, arching fronds that are divided into linear segments. They are pale green when young and turn dark green as they age. The fronds grow up to 10 feet long. This plant is...
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   Dicksonia
   [n] - tree ferns of temperate Australasia having bipinnatifid or tripinnatifid fronds and usually marginal sori
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   Dicksonia
   genus Dicksonia noun tree ferns of temperate Australasia having bipinnatifid or tripinnatifid fronds and usually marginal sori; in some classification systems placed in family Cyatheaceae
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   Dicksonia
   `Dicksonia` is a genus of tree ferns in the order Cyatheales. It is regarded as related to `Cyathea`, but is considered more primitive, dating back at least to the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. The fossil record includes stems, pinnules, and spores. The genus contains 20-25 species, distributed from Mexico to Uruguay and Chile, St. Helena, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, New Guinea, and the Philippines. New Guinea has the greatest diversit...
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   Dicksonia
   (from the article `fern`) ...of hairs or scales; sori indusiate, the indusium marginal and 2-lipped, or medial with indusium surrounding sorus from below; spores mostly ...
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