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Asplenium trichomanes L.

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

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
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L.
L.
1753
1080
ICN
Asplenium trichomanes L.
species
Asplenium trichomanes
From the Greek Trichomanes, Theophrastus’s name for maidenhair spleenwort.
Lectotype (selected by Bobrov 1984): Herb. Linn. No. 1250.12, LINN (!online).

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trichomanes

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Asplenium trichomanes L.

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.

Asplenium trichomanes L.

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.

Asplenium trichomanes L.

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Asplenium trichomanes L.
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typification
Lectotype (selected by Bobrov 1984): Herb. Linn. No. 1250.12, LINN (!online).
Etymology
From the Greek Trichomanes, Theophrastus’s name for maidenhair spleenwort.

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055887b8-eaf0-4b17-ba70-6866e523ad78
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
22 March 2007
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