Anogramma leptophylla (L.) Link

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Name scientific

Anogramma leptophylla (L.) Link, Fil. Spec. 137 (1841)

Preferred name

Anogramma leptophylla (L.) Link

Taxonomy reference

Brownsey, P.J.; Smith-Dodsworth, J.C. 2000: New Zealand ferns and allied plants. Edition 2. David Bateman, Auckland.

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

Combination authors

Link

Original authors

Authors

(L.) Link

Publication place

Link, J.H.F. 1841: Filicum species in horto regio botanico Berolinensi cultae. Veit, Berlin.

Year published

1841

Publication page

137

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Polypodium leptophyllum L.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Anogramma leptophylla

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Polypodiopsida

Order

Polypodiales

Family

Pteridaceae

Genus

Anogramma

Species

leptophylla

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Anogramma leptophylla (L.) Link

Description

Rhizome very short, weak, ascending, bearing linear ferruginous hairs; stipites tufted. Stipes filiform to very slender, nude except at very base, pale to rather dark brown, shining, 1-6 cm. long. Rhachis filiform to very slender, nude, with rather distant pinnae. Lamina pinnate to subbipinnate, narrow- to ovate-oblong, pale green, flaccid, glab., 1-8 cm. long. Pinnae 5-20 mm., stalked, flabellate-cuneate, deeply lobed, decurrent; lobes rounded, apiculate or not; pinnae sts again flabellately divided to subpinnate. Sporangia pale, clustered on veins, often covering most of lobe. Sts only the inner laminae are fertile.

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