Hymenophyllum australe Willd.

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Name scientific

Hymenophyllum australe Willd., Sp. Pl. 5(1), 527 (1810)

Preferred name

Hymenophyllum australe Willd.

Taxonomy reference

de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. 2013: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

Willd.

Original authors

Willd.

Publication place

Willdenow, C.L. 1810: Species Plantarum. Vol. 5 (1). G.C. Nauk, Berlin.

Year published

1810

Publication page

527

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Hymenophyllum australe Willd.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Hymenophyllum australe

Etymology

From the Latin australis (southern), a reference to its occurrence in Australia and New Zealand.

Typification

Holotype: Nova Hollandia [Australia], J.J. Labillardière, Herb. Willdenow, B–W 20232-01 0 (n.v.; see Bostock & Spokes 1998)

Bostock, P.D.; Spokes, T.M. 1998: Hymenophyllaceae. In: Flora of Australia. Vol. 48. 116–148, 706.

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Polypodiopsida

Order

Hymenophyllales

Family

Hymenophyllaceae

Genus

Hymenophyllum

Species

australe

Subordinates

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Hymenophyllum atrovirens Colenso

Description

Rhizome slender, with scattered hairs when young; stipites rather distant. Stipes 1-8 cm. long, with flat wings, narrowing towards base. Rhachis slender, with broad flat wings. Lamina 3-10 cm. long, about lanceolate, dark green, 2-3-pinnatifid, final segs narrow-oblong, obtuse to retuse; margins 2 cells thick. Sori few, free. Indusium 1 mm. long, broad-ovate, 2-valved to near base, valves entire to minutely crenulate. Receptacle not exserted.

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

Hymenophyllum montanum Kirk

Description

Kirk's description is: "Rhizome slender, wiry, creeping; fronds few, 2-3 inches long, glabrous, linear oblong or oblong lanceolate, bipinnatifid; stipes about 1 inch long, winged nearly to the base; rhachis flexuous, winged, pinnae in from 5-8 pairs, mostly alternate, spreading, about one-third of an inch long, cut nearly to the rhachis into 2-4 spreading, linear, forked or bilobate segments. Involucres terminating the segments, small, oval, 2-lipped nearly to the base; lips deeply toothed or jagged; receptacle included."

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