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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.

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Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
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Colenso ex Hook.
Hook.
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.

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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
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
Balantium lanatum (Colenso ex Hook.) Fée
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
Dicksonia laevis Heward
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
Dicksonia lanata Colenso
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
Dicksonia lanata Colenso
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
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
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Dicksonia lanata Colenso ex Hook.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
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)
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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b6ea5d41-4cf0-4c55-bae4-90683b9d6fa5
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
14 June 2024
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