Plants along MacLehose Trail – Section 5. Fan-leaved Maidenhair Fern (*Adiantum flabellulatum* Linn.) features green fronds that are smooth and hairless on both sides. It has flabellate-forked veins, lacks stipules, and displays asymmetrically forked stipes. Both the stipe and rachis are covered with deep red, short bristle-like hairs, and the petiole is slender, resembling iron wire. The rachis splits in an asymmetrical dichotomous manner with dark red short stiff hairs. The fronds are palmate-pinnate, with young fronds appearing red or yellow, turning deep green as they mature. They are smooth on both surfaces, with irregular notches along the anterior margin and entire lateral margins.
