What is the meaning of flowering fern?

noun

  • Australasian fern with clusters of sporangia on stems of fertile fronds.
  • Any fern of the genus Osmunda: large ferns with creeping rhizomes; naked sporangia are on modified fronds that resemble flower clusters.
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