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Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.

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Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook., Sp. Fil. 1, 69 (1844)
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
Brownsey, P.J.; Perrie, L.R. 2014: Taxonomic notes on the New Zealand flora: recognition of two subspecies in Dicksonia lanata. New Zealand Journal of Botany 52(3): 343–351.

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Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Brownsey, P.J.; Perrie, L.R. (2014)

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Colenso ex Hook.
Hook.
Hooker, W.J. 1844–1846: Species Filicum. Vol. 1. Pamplin, London.
1844
69
ICN
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
species
Dicksonia lanata
From the Latin lanatus (woolly), a reference to the woolly hairs on the underside of the laminae of this species.
Holotype: New Zealand, W. Colenso 271, Herb. Hooker., K! (photo WELT E470/10)

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Cyatheales
Dicksoniaceae
Dicksonia
lanata

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

Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.

Caudex either (a) prostrate, slender, up to 5 cm. or more diam., branching to form clumps, or (b) erect, stout, up to 2 m. tall. Stipes 20-60 cm. long, densely clad in lower part in shining red-brown hairs up to 2 cm. long, and in shorter brown hairs in furrow. Rhachis similarly clad, glabrate in age. Lamina 30-50 cm. long, ovate to deltoid, acuminate, coriac., yellowish green above, paler below, 2-3-pinnate. Primary pinnae diminishing upwards and downwards from 15-25 cm. long, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acute. Secondary pinnae up to 5 cm. or more long, us. less. Pinnules close-set, up to 5 mm. long; barren ovate-oblong, acute to obtuse, slightly concave, crenately toothed; fertile with rounded strongly concavo-convex lobes, each bearing a sorus Indusium subcoriac.

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Balantium lanatum (Colenso ex Hook.) Fée
Balantium lanatum (Colenso ex Hook.) Fée
Brownsey, P.J.; Perrie, L.R. (2014)
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
Dicksonia laevis Heward
Dicksonia laevis Heward
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
Dicksonia lanata Colenso
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
Dicksonia lanata Colenso
Brownlie, G. (1961)
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
Brownsey, P.J.; Given, D.R.; Lovis, J.D. (1985)
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
Brownsey, P.J.; Perrie, L.R. (2014)
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
Colenso, W. (1845)
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
St. George, I. (2009)
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.

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Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
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Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
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Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
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Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
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Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
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Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
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Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
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Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
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Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
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typification
Holotype: New Zealand, W. Colenso 271, Herb. Hooker., K! (photo WELT E470/10)
Brownsey, P.J.; Perrie, L.R. 2014: Taxonomic notes on the New Zealand flora: recognition of two subspecies in Dicksonia lanata. New Zealand Journal of Botany 52(3): 343–351.
Etymology
From the Latin lanatus (woolly), a reference to the woolly hairs on the underside of the laminae of this species.

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1 January 2000
26 February 2015
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