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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.
Nomenclature
Sm.
Sm.
1793
419, t. 9, fig. 10
conserved
ICN
Gleichenia Sm.
genus
Gleichenia
Classification
Subordinates
- Gleichenia ×punctulata
- Gleichenia alpina
- Gleichenia ciliata
- Gleichenia cunninghamii
- Gleichenia dicarpa
- Gleichenia dichotoma
- Gleichenia flabellata
- Gleichenia hecistophylla
- Gleichenia hermannii
- Gleichenia inclusisora
- Gleichenia linearis
- Gleichenia littoralis
- Gleichenia microphylla
- Gleichenia patens
- Gleichenia rupestris
- Gleichenia semivestita
- Gleichenia speluncae
- Gleichenia tenera
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Synonyms
Descriptions
Gleichenia Sm.
Characters as given for family; fronds always bipinnate or more compound.
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.
Taxonomic concepts
Gleichenia Sm.
Gleichenia Sm.
Gleichenia Sm.
Gleichenia Sm.
Gleichenia Sm.
Gleichenia Sm.
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Etymology
Named in honour of F.W. Gleichen (1717-83), German amateur naturalist.
Metadata
710a7214-41d3-4baf-9105-c5349a68fb2c
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
17 April 2015