"Ferns" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Seedless nonflowering plants of the class Filicinae. They reproduce by spores that appear as dots on the underside of feathery fronds. In earlier classifications the Pteridophyta included the club mosses, horsetails, ferns, and various fossil groups. In more recent classifications, pteridophytes and spermatophytes (seed-bearing plants) are in the division, or phylum, Tracheophyta.
| Descriptor ID |
D029624
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.650.940.800.575.250
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