A genus of tropical ferns characterized by their delicate frond structure and distinctive leaflet arrangement.
From Greek 'konios' (dusty) + 'gramma' (mark or line), referring to how the spore clusters on fern fronds appear like dusty lines or marks.
These ferns get their name because their spore clusters genuinely look like dust tracks across the leaf surface—it's a visual metaphor that ancient botanists found so perfect that the name stuck for centuries.
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