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	Adiantum	Arachniodes
	Aspidotis	Asplenium
	Astrolepis	Athyrium
	Blechnum	Cheilanthes
	Cryptogramma	Cyrtomium
	Cystopteris	Dennstaedtia
	Deparia	Diplazium
	Dryopteris	Gymnocarpium
	Lygodium	Matteuccia
	Onoclea	Oreopteris
	Osmunda	Pellaea
	Phegopteris	Pleopeltis
	Polypodium	Polystichum
	Pteridium	Pteris
	Pyrrosia	Thelypteris
	Woodsia	Woodwardia

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acicular
acroscopic
acuminate
acute
alternate
apex
apiculate
appressed
areole
attenuate
auricle
auriculate
basal
basiscopic
bivalvate
blade
caudate
caudex
cartilaginous
clathrate
commissural
costa
costule
crenate
crenulate

crosier
decumbent
decurrent
deltate
dentate
denticulate
dimidiate
distal
elliptic
emarginate
entire
exindusiate
falcate
fiddlehead
free, forked
frond
glandular
hastate
idioblast
incised
indusium
inframedial
involucre
jointed
lacerate

lanceolate
linear
lanceolate
long-creeping
marginal
medial
oblanceolate
oblong
obovate
obtuse
opposite
ovate
ovate-lanceolate
pectinate
peltate indusium
peltate scale
pericostal
petiole
pinna(e)
pinnate
pinnatifid
pinnatisect
pinnule
proximal
rachis

reniform
reticulate
rhizome
roots
segment
serrate
short-creeping
simple
sinus
spatulate
sorus
stellate
stipe
stolon
submarginal
submedial
supramedial
synangium
ternate
trapeziform
triangular
truncate
tufted
undulate
venuloid

Drawings by Anna Stone from Hawai`i's Ferns and Fern Allies, Daniel D. Palmer, 2003.

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