Tmesipteris elongata P.A.Dang.
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![Tmesipteris elongata: aerial stem showing indeterminate growth with the apex terminated by a small leaf or sporophyll. Creator: L.R. Perrie. © Leon Perrie 2013. [Image: 1T47]](https://data.landcareresearch.co.nz/Image/1T47/SysPortalPreview)
![Tmesipteris elongata: aerial stem bearing round-ended bilobed synangia on the adaxial margin of bifid sporophylls, splitting along the adaxial surface. Creator: L.R. Perrie. © Leon Perrie 2004. [Image: 1T48]](https://data.landcareresearch.co.nz/Image/1T48/SysPortalPreview)
![Tmesipteris elongata: aerial stem growing from a tree fern trunk, bearing narrowly-ovate sterile leaves tapering to a short mucro, and sporophylls in the distal half. The frond at bottom right is T. lanceolata. Creator: L.R. Perrie. © Leon Perrie 2013. [Image: 1T49]](https://data.landcareresearch.co.nz/Image/1T49/SysPortalPreview)
![Tmesipteris elongata: round-ended bilobed synangia borne on the adaxial margin of bifid sporophylls. Creator: L.R. Perrie. © Leon Perrie 2009. [Image: 1T4A]](https://data.landcareresearch.co.nz/Image/1T4A/SysPortalPreview)
![Tmesipteris elongata. Close up of sporophylls showing round-ended synangia appressed to the subtending leaf margin. Creator: L.R. Perrie. © Leon Perrie 2013. [Image: 1WPC]](https://data.landcareresearch.co.nz/Image/1WPC/SysPortalPreview)
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Tmesipteris elongata P.A.Dang., Botaniste Séries 2: 213, pl. 12, fig. 6 (1891)
Tmesipteris elongata P.A.Dang.
Biostatus
Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Nomenclature
P.A.Dang.
P.A.Dang.
1891
213, pl. 12, fig. 6
ICN
Tmesipteris elongata P.A.Dang.
species
Tmesipteris elongata
Classification
Subordinates
Synonyms
- Tmesipteris elongata P.A.Dang. subsp. elongata
- Tmesipteris elongata subsp. robusta Chinnock
- Tmesipteris forsteri sensu A.Cunn.
- Tmesipteris forsteri sensu Bierh.
- Tmesipteris forsteri sensu G.M.Thomson
- Tmesipteris forsteri sensu Hook.f.
- Tmesipteris lanceolata M.Sykes
- Tmesipteris tannensis sensu Allan
- Tmesipteris tannensis sensu Cheeseman
- Tmesipteris tannensis sensu Harris
- Tmesipteris tannensis var. elongata (P.A.Dang.) Domin
- Tmesipteris tugana H.N.Barber
Associations
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Descriptions
Rhizome 2-3 mm diameter; aerial shoot robust, dichotomously branched 1-many times in the upper part; decurrent leaf base forming a prominent wing particularly in the lower part of the stem; leaves 1-2 per cm of stem, (2.5)3-4(-4.2) cm long, (6-) 7-9 mm broad towards the proximal end, falcate or broad lanceolate, majority of apices acute.
Rhizoma 2-3 mm diam; surculus aerius robustus, dichotome, semel ad multoties ramosus, in parte supero, praecipue in parte infero basi folii decurrenti alam prominentem facienti; folia falcata ad late lanceolata, apicibus plerumque acutis, 1 vel 2 per 1 cm longitudinem surculi, (2.5-) 3-4(-4.2) cm longa, versus extremitate proximale (6-)7-9 mm lata.
Taxonomic concepts
Tmesipteris elongata P.A.Dang.
Tmesipteris elongata P.A.Dang.
Tmesipteris elongata P.A.Dang.
Tmesipteris elongata P.A.Dang.
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Tmesipteris elongata P.A.Dang.
Tmesipteris elongata P.A.Dang.
Tmesipteris elongata P.A.Dang.
Tmesipteris elongata P.A.Dang.
Tmesipteris elongata P.A.Dang.
Tmesipteris elongata P.A.Dang.
Tmesipteris elongata P.A.Dang.
Tmesipteris elongata P.A.Dang.
Tmesipteris elongata P.A.Dang.
Tmesipteris elongata P.A.Dang. subsp. elongata
Tmesipteris elongata P.A.Dang.
Tmesipteris elongata P.A.Dang. subsp. elongata
Tmesipteris elongata subsp. robusta Chinnock
Tmesipteris elongata P.A.Dang.
Tmesipteris elongata subsp. robusta Chinnock
Tmesipteris forsteri sensu Bierh.
Tmesipteris elongata P.A.Dang.
Tmesipteris forsteri sensu Hook.f.
Tmesipteris elongata P.A.Dang.
Tmesipteris forsteri sensu G.M.Thomson
Tmesipteris elongata P.A.Dang.
Tmesipteris lanceolata M. Sykes
Tmesipteris elongata P.A.Dang.
Tmesipteris lanceolata sensu Sykes
Tmesipteris elongata P.A.Dang.
Tmesipteris tannensis sensu Harris
Tmesipteris elongata P.A.Dang.
Tmesipteris tannensis sensu Cheeseman
Tmesipteris elongata P.A.Dang.
Tmesipteris tannensis sensu Allan
Tmesipteris elongata P.A.Dang.
Tmesipteris tannensis var. elongata (P.A.Dang.) Domin
Tmesipteris elongata P.A.Dang.
Tmesipteris tugana H.N.Barber
Tmesipteris elongata P.A.Dang.
Tmesipteris tugana sensu Wakefield
Tmesipteris elongata P.A.Dang.
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Identification keys
Notes
Etymology
From the Latin elongatus (elongated), a reference to the leaf shape.
typification
Lectotype (selected by Chinnock 1998): Plate 12, figure 5 in Le Botaniste Sér. 2 (Dangeard 1891)
Metadata
13a4db5c-4c69-4ccb-8c29-03cc18803504
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
1 October 2013
