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Lecanopteris scandens (G.Forst.) Perrie & Brownsey

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Lecanopteris scandens (G.Forst.) Perrie & Brownsey in Perrie et al., Blumea 66: 247 (2021)
Lecanopteris scandens (G.Forst.) Perrie & Brownsey

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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(G.Forst.) Perrie & Brownsey
G.Forst.
Perrie & Brownsey
2021
247
ICN
species
Lecanopteris scandens

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Rhizome 2-3 mm. diam., far-creeping, much-branched; densely clad in dark brown lanceolate-attenuate squarrose paleae up to 5 mm. long; stipites distant to approximate, articulated to rhizome. Stipes slender, nude or nearly so, very narrowly winged, 1-8 cm. long. Lamina trimorphic, the different forms occurring on the same plant, thin, dull green; main vein stout, prominent, secondary veins and veinlets us. indistinct; anastomoses forming large areoles with included free veinlets: (a) lamina simple, entire, 5-35 cm. × 5-10 mm. linear-lanceolate, tapering to obtuse tip; occasionally bearing sori. (b) lamina 20-30 × 5-10 cm., irregularly pinnatifid, mainly in mid-region; lobes of unequal length sts on one margin only, few to several, sinus wide; lobes 1-5 cm. long, gradually tapering from base up to 10 mm. wide; terminal seg. long; us. bearing sori. (c) lamina repeatedly, less irregularly pinnatifid, up to 35 cm. long; lobes up to 8 cm. long or more, tapering from base 5-10 mm. wide; terminal seg. long; us. with cop. sori. Sori rather distant in a single row on each side of main and secondary veins, near margin; rounded to broad-oblong, 1-2 mm. diam.; slightly sunken, showing as dark spots on upper surface or as bullate protuberances.

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Lecanopteris scandens (G.Forst.) Perrie & Brownsey
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Lecanopteris scandens (G.Forst.) Perrie & Brownsey
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Lecanopteris scandens (G.Forst.) Perrie & Brownsey
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Lecanopteris scandens (G.Forst.) Perrie & Brownsey
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Lecanopteris scandens (G.Forst.) Perrie & Brownsey
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Lecanopteris scandens (G.Forst.) Perrie & Brownsey
New Zealand
Westland Land District
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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26 August 2021
17 November 2021
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