whisk fern

whisk fern

n. An epiphytic vascular plant (Psilotum nudum) of subtropical and tropical North and Central America, Asia, and Africa, having leafless green branching stems that bear spores.

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whisk fern - chiefly tropical clump-forming plants of skeletal appearance resembling whisk brooms; lacking rootsfern ally - pteridophytes of other classes than Filicopsidagenus Psilotum, Psilotum - type genus of the PsilotaceaePsilotum nudum, skeleton fork fern - pantropical epiphytic or terrestrial whisk fern with usually dull yellow branches and minute leaves; America; Japan; Australia