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ADIANTUM
Plant in soil or rock crevices; rhizome short-creeping, scales variously colored.
Leaf: < ± 1 m; stipe cylindric, generally dark red-brown to ± black, shiny, ± scaly at base; blade 2–3- pinnate or ± palmate-pinnate (1st division ± palmate, subsequent ones pinnate), pinnae stalked, fan-shaped or oblong, generally lobed, toothed, or both; axes, blades lacking colored exudate.
Sporangia: borne along veins on and covered by highly modified, recurved part of segment margin, appearing to run together at maturity; false indusia ± semicircular to linear; spores generally smooth, tan.
± 200 species: tropics, temperate. (Greek: unwettable) Widely cultivated.

Key to Adiantum

1. Lf ± palmate-pinnate ..... A. aleuticum

1' Lf 2–3-pinnate

2. Pinnules cut or lobed often > 1/4 way to base, margins at base converging at 45–90°, sori (and false indusia) (2)3–11, generally < 5 mm ..... A. capillus-veneris

2' Pinnules cut or lobed often < 1/4 way to base, margins at base converging at 90–180(240)°, sori (and false indusia) 1–3(5), generally > 5 mm ..... A. jordanii

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