छोटे से मध्यम आकार के स्थलीय फर्न विशेष रूप से होली फर्न; Polypodiaceae में रखे गए कुछ वर्गीकरण प्रणाली में

polystichum's Usage Examples:

This family now embraces the Polystichum and some species of Lastrea.

Rarer arctic-alpines on the site include alpine saw-wort Saussurea alpina, alpine saxifrage Saxifraga nivalis and holly-fern Polystichum lonchitis.

Rarer arctic-Alpines on the site include alpine saw-wort Saussurea alpina, alpine saxifrage Saxifraga nivalis and holly-fern Polystichum lonchitis.

In others (Polystichum angulare proliferum) the stipes below and the rachis amongst the pinnae develop buds, which are often numerous and crowded.

Not unlike the runner, though growing in a very different way, are the bud-plants formed on the fronds of several kinds of ferns belonging to the genera Asplenium, Woodwardia, Polystichum, Lastrea, Adiantum, Cystopteris, 'c. In some of these (Adiantum caudatusn, Polystichum lepidocaulon) the rachis of the frond is lengthened out much like the string of the strawberry runner, and bears a plant at its apex.

polystichum's Meaning':

small to medium-sized terrestrial ferns especially holly ferns; in some classification systems placed in Polypodiaceae