Asplenium trichomanes L.

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Name scientific

Asplenium trichomanes L., Sp. Pl. 1080 (1753)

Preferred name

Asplenium trichomanes L.

Taxonomy reference

Orchard, A.E. (ed.) 1998: Ferns, Gymosperms and Allied Groups. Flora of Australia. Vol. 48. ABRS and CSIRO, Melbourne. ABRS/CSIRO, Canberra and Melbourne.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Brownsey, P.J.; Smith-Dodsworth, J.C. (2000)

Nomenclature

Original authors

Authors

Publication place

Linnaeus, C. 1753: Species Plantarum. Impensis Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm.

Year published

1753

Publication page

1080

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Asplenium trichomanes L.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Asplenium trichomanes

Etymology

From the Greek Trichomanes, Theophrastus’s name for maidenhair spleenwort.

Typification

Lectotype (selected by Bobrov 1984): Herb. Linn. No. 1250.12, LINN (!online).

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Polypodiopsida

Order

Polypodiales

Family

Aspleniaceae

Genus

Asplenium

Species

trichomanes

Subordinates

Asplenium trichomanes subsp. trichomanes

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

maidenhair spleenwort

Synonyms

Descriptions

Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Asplenium trichomanes L.

Description

Rhizome stout, ascending, invested with bases of fallen stipites, clad in dark linear-acuminate paleae up to 5 mm. long; stipites numerous, tufted. Stipes stiff, wiry, erect or ascending, dark brown, shining, 1-10 cm. long, paleate at base, elsewhere nude or nearly so. Rhachis stiff, dark brown, very narrowly winged, with rather distant subopp. pinnae. Lamina linear, 5-30 cm. long, subcoriac., dark green. Pinnae subsessile by narrowed base, 30-40-(80); oblong to obovate-oblong, occ. auricled, crenate-serrate to subentire, obliquely cuneate at base; larger 5-12 × 3-5 mm.; veinlets obscure, pinnate, forked. Sori cop., oblique, often confluent and covering whole of under-surface, up to 3 mm. long; indusium firm.

Brownsey, P.J. 1977: A taxonomic revision of the New Zealand species of Asplenium. New Zealand Journal of Botany 15(1): 39–86.

Asplenium trichomanes L.

Description

Rhizome stout, erect, bearing dark brown subulate scales up to 5 mm long. Stipes 1-10 cm long, dark brown, shining, stiff, lacking scales except at the very base. Laminae linear, 5-30 cm long, dark green, sub-coriaceous, pinnate. Raches dark brown, shining, stiff, lacking scales. Pinnae sub-sessile, 15-25 (or more) pairs, oblong to ± orbicular, crenateserrate to ± entire, 2-10 × 1-5 mm. Sori up to 3 mm long.

Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.