cliff-brake

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cliff-brake - any of several small lithophytic ferns of tropical and warm temperate regionscliff brake, rock brakefern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by sporesgenus Pellaea, Pellaea - genus of chiefly small rock-loving ferns; in some classification systems it is placed in the family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceaecoffee fern, Pellaea andromedifolia - evergreen fern of California and Baja CaliforniaPellaea atropurpurea, purple rock brake - very short shallowly creeping North American fern usually growing on cliffs or walls and having dark glossy leaf axesbird's-foot fern, Pellaea mucronata, Pellaea ornithopus - cliff brake of California and Baja California having purple-brown leafstalks