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Adiantum Capillus-Veneris

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Adiantum capillus-veneris, known as the maidenhair fern, southern maidenhair fern, black maidenhair fern, or Venus hair fern, is a fern in the family Pteridaceae with a subcosmopolitan distribution across humid warm temperate to tropical regions of western and southern Europe, Africa, Asia as far as Japan, Australasia, and the Americas from the southern United States to South America. It grows 15 to 30 centimeters tall from creeping rhizomes, with delicate light green fronds divided into small pinnae and a characteristic black, wiry rachis, favoring moist, shaded sandstone or limestone. It is listed as Least Concern by the IUCN and Secure by NatureServe overall, though it is endangered in North Carolina and threatened in Kentucky because of habitat loss.

Facts

Classification

Diet

Photosynthetic Autotroph 1

System (Realm)

Terrestrial 2

Relationship to People

Used in Traditional Medicine 1

Living or Extinct

Yes 3

Comparison

NatureServe Rank

G5 Secure 2

CITES Appendix

Not Listed 4

Scientific Name

Adiantum capillus-veneris 3

Conservation Status

Least Concern 3

Connections

Child Taxon Of

Maidenhair Fern

Source Adiantum capillus-veneris (Wikidata)

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Sources

1. Adiantum capillus-veneris (Wikipedia)

Article text
This plant is used medicinally by Native Americans.
Lead, sentence naming the group it belongs to
Adiantum capillus-veneris, the maidenhair fern, southern maidenhair fern, black maidenhair fern and venus hair fern, is a species of ferns in the genus Adiantum and the family Pteridaceae with a subcosmopolitan worldwide distribution.

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2. NatureServe Explorer: Adiantum capillus-veneris

NatureServe Explorer

Global rank (roundedGRank)
"roundedGRank": "G5"
Habitat comments
It generally inhabits moist cliffs or slopes

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3. Adiantum capillus-veneris (Wikidata)

Wikidata

Wikidata Q4678994 (P225 taxon name)
Wikidata P141 (IUCN conservation status) claim, entity QID Q4678994
Statements section, conservation status (P141)
IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): least concern.
Child Taxon Of: Maidenhair Fern, Wikidata P171 (parent taxon) claim, rank=normal, target=Q673823 (Maidenhair Fern)

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4. UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Polypodiales

UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 12392

Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 12392

"active":true,"cites_listing":"NC"

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Plant (Wikipedia)

Lead, whole group is photosynthetic

Quote, Lead, whole group is photosynthetic

They are predominantly photosynthetic or came from photosynthetic ancestors, meaning that they obtain their energy from sunlight by using the green pigment chlorophyll in their chloroplasts to produce sugars from carbon dioxide and water.

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