Key Identification Features
- This fern is characterized by large fronds, which are approximately one meter in length, with large sporangia on their undersides.
- It is a deciduous herbaceous plant that produces distinct separate fertile and sterile fronds.
- Three to seven short, cinnamon-colored fertile segments are positioned in the middle of the frond’s length; this distinct feature gives the species its common name of interrupted fern.
- It produces two distinct types of fronds: separate fertile spore-bearing fronds and sterile fronds.
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