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Delicate, pale green, deciduous fern emerging in a small compact clump from a slender rhizome. The leaves are few, erect to arching, 3-8 dm tall and quite narrow (max. ca 15 cm wide). Leaves are twice-pinnate (twice divided leaflets) with 35-40 opposite or offset leaflet pairs. The upper leaflets are larger and close together, the lower are greatly reduced in size and quite far apart. Spore clus...

Wavy Moonwort is a small, perennial fern with a single aboveground frond. The frond is usually 10 cm or less tall, yellow-green, and divided into two segments which share a common stalk. The mostly sterile segment is once pinnatifid with usually three or four well separated pairs of thin textured, broadly fan-shaped pinnae which have distinct veins and crenulate margins. The fertile segment is l...

Linearleaf Moonwort is a small, perennial fern with a single pale green, above-ground frond which stands 6-18 cm tall. The frond is divided into two segments, one sterile, one fertile, which share a common stalk. The sterile segment is once-pinnate (with segments, or pinnae borne on each side of a elongated central axis) with 4-6 widely spaced pairs of pinnae which are linear shaped or sometimes...