Gleichenia Sm.

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Name scientific

Gleichenia Sm., Mém. Acad. Roy. Sci. (Turin) 5: 419, t. 9, fig. 10 (1793)

Preferred name

Gleichenia Sm.

Taxonomy reference

Perrie, L.R.; Shepherd, L.D.; Brownsey, P.J. 2012: Gleichenia inclusisora, a new and uncommon tangle fern from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 50(4): 401–410.

Linked name

Gleichenia Sm. 1793

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Original authors

Sm.

Authors

Sm.

Publication place

Smith, J.E. 1793: Tentamen botanicum de filicum generibus dorsiferarum. Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences de Turin 5: 401–422.

Year published

1793

Publication page

419, t. 9, fig. 10

Nomenclatural status

conserved

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Gleichenia Sm.

Taxonomic rank

genus

Canonical form

Gleichenia

Etymology

Named in honour of F.W. Gleichen (1717-83), German amateur naturalist.

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Polypodiopsida

Order

Gleicheniales

Family

Gleicheniaceae

Genus

Gleichenia

Subordinates

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

tangle fern

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Gleichenia Sm.

Description

Characters as given for family; fronds always bipinnate or more compound.

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

Gleichenia circinnata Sw.

Description

Rhizome slender, wiry ± clad in chaffy scales. Stipes 2-3 mm. diam., up to 30 cm. or more long, stiff, often hispidulous by stiff scales, becoming glab. Branches us. densely clad in pale to dark brown hairs and fimbriate scales. Pinnae 2-5 cm. long, narrow-linear. Pinnules 20-50, close-set, coriac., cucullate, suborbicular, c. 1 mm. diam., densely hairy to glabrate below. Sporangia 1-2 or rarely 3 per sorus, dull, white to yellowish-white. The pinnules of shaded pinnae often flattening.