Wilson's filmy fern
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Named after William Wilson (botanist).
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Wilson's filmy fern (uncountable)
- Hymenophyllum wilsonii, a fern in the family Hymenophyllaceae, the filmy ferns.
- 1864, Margaret Plues, Rambles in Search of Flowerless Plants[1], page 41:
- Here it was that the Lastrea Fœnisecii was growing in such luxuriance; and in the very cave of which it was the gate keeper I found Wilson's Filmy-Fern, clothing the moist sides as a curtain.
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Hymenophyllum wilsonii
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