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Gleichenia Sm.

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

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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Sm.
Sm.
1793
419, t. 9, fig. 10
conserved
ICN
Gleichenia Sm.
genus
Gleichenia
Named in honour of F.W. Gleichen (1717-83), German amateur naturalist.

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Gleichenia

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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.

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Gleichenia Sm.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Gleichenia Sm.
New Zealand
Southland Land District

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

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710a7214-41d3-4baf-9105-c5349a68fb2c
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
17 April 2015
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