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Todea superba Colenso

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Todea superba Colenso, Tasmanian J. Nat. Sci. 2: 188 (1845)
Leptopteris superba (Colenso) C.Presl

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Colenso
Colenso
Colenso, W. 1845: A classification and description of some newly discovered ferns, collected in the Northern Island of New Zealand, in the summer of 1841–2. Tasmanian Journal of Natural Science 2: 161–189.
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188
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Todea superba Colenso
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Todea superba
Lectotype (selected by Allan 1961): near Waikare[moana] Lake, New Zealand, W. Colenso, 1841, WELT P003278!

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Osmundales
Osmundaceae
Todea
superba

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

Todea superba Colenso

Stock stout, up to 1 m. tall, us. less. Fronds crowded, spreading, up to 12 dm. long; stipites dark brown, densely to sparsely clad in woolly brownish hairs, or almost nude, up to 15 cm. long and 5 mm. or more diam. Rhachides us. densely clad in woolly hairs. Lamina tripinnate, about lanceolate in outline, acuminate. Primary pinnae close-set, uppermost under 3 cm. long, mid up to 15 cm., lowest 3 cm. or less. Pinnules pinnatisect, overlapping, pellucid, up to 2 cm. long. Sporangia along vein of pinnule, mainly in lower half of pinnae.

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Todea superba Colenso
Todea superba Colenso
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Todea superba Colenso
Todea Willd. ex Bernh.

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Lectotype (selected by Allan 1961): near Waikare[moana] Lake, New Zealand, W. Colenso, 1841, WELT P003278!

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1 January 2000
16 March 2012
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