serpent fern

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serpent fern - tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polypodiumgolden polypody, Phlebodium aureum, Polypodium aureum, rabbit's-foot fernfern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by sporesgenus Phlebodium, Phlebodium - chiefly epiphytic tropical ferns with free veins bearing sori