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Gleichenia cunninghamii Heward ex Hook.

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Gleichenia cunninghamii Heward ex Hook., Sp. Fil. 1, 6, t. 6b (1844)
Sticherus cunninghamii (Heward ex Hook.) Ching
Names_Fungi record source Gleichenia cunninghamii Heward ex Hook. 1844

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Heward ex Hook.
Hook.
Hooker, W.J. 1844–1846: Species Filicum. Vol. 1. Pamplin, London.
1844
6, t. 6b
G. cunninghami
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Gleichenia cunninghamii Heward ex Hook.
species
Gleichenia cunninghamii
Named in honour of Allan Cunningham (1791-1839), a plant collector for Kew and colonial botanist in New South Wales.
Lectotype (designated by Perrie & Brownsey 2015): New Zealand, Edgerley s.n., herb. Hook., K! (photo WELT E471/10)

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Gleicheniales
Gleicheniaceae
Gleichenia
cunninghamii

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

Gleichenia cunninghamii Heward ex Hook.

Rhizome stout, up to 6 mm. or more diam., invested with very dark brown, shining, triangular-acuminate, ± fimbriate scales. Stipes 10-20 cm. long, ± clad in pale brown scales and hairs. Pinnae 15-30 cm. long, narrow-lanceolate in outline, ± spreading in a horizontal plane. Pinnules coriac., 1-2 cm. long, linear, broadening slightly to base, acute, glaucous below; veins once-forked. Sori cop., sporangia 2-5 per sorus, yellowish-brown.

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Gleichenia cunninghamii Heward ex Hook.
Gleichenia cunninghamii Heward ex Hook.
Allan, H.H. (1961)

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Gleichenia cunninghamii Heward ex Hook.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
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Gleichenia cunninghamii Heward ex Hook.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
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typification
Lectotype (designated by Perrie & Brownsey 2015): New Zealand, Edgerley s.n., herb. Hook., K! (photo WELT E471/10)
Perrie, L.R.; Brownsey, P.J. 2015: Taxonomic notes on the New Zealand flora: lectotypes in the fern family Gleicheniaceae. New Zealand Journal of Botany 53: 183–191.
Etymology
Named in honour of Allan Cunningham (1791-1839), a plant collector for Kew and colonial botanist in New South Wales.

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scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
16 June 2015
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