Acrostichum aureum

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Acrostichum aureum - stout tropical swamp fern (especially tropical America) having large fronds with golden yellow sporangia covering the undersidesleather fern, golden fernU.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, America, the States, U.S. - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776fern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by sporesAcrostichum, genus Acrostichum - in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae