(n)plant with basal leathery elliptic leaves and erect leafless flower stalks each bearing a dense roundish cluster of tiny white flowers; moist places of northwestern North America to Oregon and Idaho, Syn.Leptarrhena pyrolifolia
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n. 1. A stiff leathery-leaved fern (Polypodium scouleri) of Western North America having ovate fronds parted to the midrib. Syn. -- leathery polypody, coast polypody, Polypodium scouleri. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
2. A northern temperate bog shrub (Chamaedaphne calyculata) with evergreen leathery leaves and small white cylindrical flowers. Syn. -- Chamaedaphne calyculata. [ WordNet 1.5 ]