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Skeleton fork fern
Douglas Goldman, CC BY-SA 4.0, via iNaturalist

Ferns

Skeleton fork fern

Psilotum nudum (L.) P.Beauv.

LC Least Concern

Names

EnglishSkeleton fork fern
DutchNaaktvaren
SpanishHelecho espárrago
Chinese松叶蕨
Scientific namePsilotum nudum (L.) P.Beauv.

About this species

Psilotum nudum, the whisk fern, is a species of fern in the order Psilotales. Like the other species in this order, it lacks roots.

Psilotum nudum means "bare naked" in Latin, because it lacks (or seems to lack) most of the organs of typical vascular plants as a result of evolutionary reduction. The leaves are not actually absent but greatly reduced.

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Classification

KingdomPlantae
PhylumTracheophyta
ClassPolypodiopsida
OrderPsilotales
FamilyPsilotaceae
GenusPsilotum

In Suriname

2Records in Suriname
1iNaturalist observations
2022First record

Where it has been recorded

  • Paramaribo1

Districts with at least one record that has coordinates. Shaded districts have records.

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