leather fern

Noun

• widely distributed fern of tropical southern hemisphere having leathery pinnatifid fronds

• stout tropical swamp fern (especially tropical America) having large fronds with golden yellow sporangia covering the undersides

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  leatherleaf fern , ten-day fern , Rumohra adiantiformis , Polystichum adiantiformis , golden fern , Acrostichum aureum