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Hypolepis Bernh.

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Hypolepis Bernh., Neues J. Bot. 1(2): 34 (1805)
Hypolepis Bernh.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
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Bernh.
Bernh.
1805
34
ICN
Hypolepis Bernh.
genus
Hypolepis
From the Greek hypo- (under) and lepis (a scale), a reference to the protection of the sori beneath a reflexed portion of the margin.

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Hypolepis Bernh.

Sori globose, us. submarginal, protected by reflexed modified seg. of lamina or further from margin and quite unprotected. Sporangia stalked; annulus incomplete, vertical; spores oblong, mostly tuberculate to spinulose. Rhizome creeping, solenostelic, bearing hairs; lamina bipinnate to decompound; veins free. Some 45 terrestrial spp., mainly tropical to subtropical.

Hypolepis Bernh.

Terrestrial ferns; rhizomes long-creeping, solenostelic; fronds often large, bipinnate or more compound; veins free; scales absent; hairs present on at least some part of lamina, rachis, stipe or rhizome, often abundant, glandular or nonglandular, sometimes modified on stipe and rachis into recurved spines; sorus ± round, ranging in position from marginal and terminal on a vein to submarginal and not quite terminating the vein; indusium a reflexed laminal flap, sometimes welldeveloped protecting the marginal sorus, more usually only partially reflexed, occasionally totally lacking in species with submarginal sori; spores monolete; chromosome number n = 28, 29, (39?), 52, 98, 104 (Brownsey 1983).

Hypolepis Bernh.

n = 152 (50 univalents + 51 bivalents)
n = 151 (49 univalents + 51 bivalents)
n = 149 (53 univalents + 48 bivalents)
n = 152–156 (52–64 univalents + 46–52 bivalents)
n = 87 univalents + 44 bivalents + 11 trivalents

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Hypolepis Bernh.
Australia
Hypolepis Bernh.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Hypolepis Bernh.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Hypolepis Bernh.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Hypolepis Bernh.
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Hypolepis Bernh.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Hypolepis Bernh.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
Hypolepis Bernh.
Niue

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Etymology
From the Greek hypo- (under) and lepis (a scale), a reference to the protection of the sori beneath a reflexed portion of the margin.

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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
22 March 2017
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