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Anemia fern

Anemia

Also called Vascular Plants, Tracheophytes

Anemia fern
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Anemia is a genus of ferns, often called flowering ferns, with dimorphic fronds where the fertile fronds bear sporangia on modified lower pinnae. Commonly grown members need humid, warm conditions and consistently moist but not waterlogged soil.

Grows as
Fern
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist and never let it dry out completely.
Soil
Peaty, well-draining mix with added perlite or bark.
Temperature
18–27 °C; protect below 10 °C.
How easy
Moderate

About

Anemia is a genus of ferns. It is the only genus in the family Anemiaceae in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I). Alternatively, the genus may be placed as the only genus in the subfamily Anemioideae of a more broadly defined family Schizaeaceae, the family placement used in Plants of the World Online as of November 2019. Its species are sometimes called flowering ferns, but this term is more commonly applied to ferns of the genus Osmunda. Fronds are dimorphic; in fertile fronds, the two lowermost pinnae are highly modified to bear the sporangia.

Ferns in this genus have chromosome numbers based on x=38: n=38, 76, 114.

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Anemia (plant) by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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