Adiantum

• Authority

  Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

• Family

  Pteridaceae

• Scientific Name

  Adiantum

• Description

  Description - Graceful ferns of rocky hillsides, woods, and ravines, with much divided leaves and short marginal sori borne on the under side of the reflexed and altered portion of the pinnule, which serves as an indusium. Stipes and branches of the leaves slender or filiform, often polished and shining. [Name ancient.] A genus of over 175 species, mostly of tropical America. Type species: Adiantum Capillus-Feneris L.