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Dryopteris affinis (Lowe) Fraser-Jenk.

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Dryopteris affinis (Lowe) Fraser-Jenk., Fern Gaz. 12: 56 (1979)
Dryopteris affinis (Lowe) Fraser-Jenk.

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New Zealand
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(Lowe) Fraser-Jenk.
Lowe
Fraser-Jenk.
1979
56
ICN
species
Dryopteris affinis

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Dryopteris affinis (Lowe) Fraser-Jenk.

Rhizomes stout, erect, often covered in dead stipe bases. Stipes 10-40 cm long, pale brown. Stipes and rachises densely covered in orange-brown scales. Laminae elliptic or narrowly elliptic, 2-pinnate, 30-125 × 15-30 cm, glossy when fresh, yellowish green. Primary pinnae in 25-50 (or more) pairs, narrowly triangular or ± oblong, tapering at apices, sessile, 8-15 × 2-3 cm, with a darkish patch near junction with rachis when fresh. Secondary pinnae in 15-30 pairs, oblong, adnate or decurrent on pinna midrib, obliquely truncate at apices, ± entire or toothed only at apices, to 15 × 7 mm; secondary pinnae on the basal pair of primary pinnae ± equal in length either side of midrib. Sori round, 1-5 pairs on each secondary pinna, often confined to upper pinnae, covered by reniform indusia which are rolled under sporangia when young.

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Dryopteris affinis (Lowe) Fraser-Jenk.
Dryopteris affinis (Lowe) Fraser-Jenk.

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New Zealand
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Dryopteris affinis (Lowe) Fraser-Jenk.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Dryopteris affinis (Lowe) Fraser-Jenk.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Dryopteris affinis (Lowe) Fraser-Jenk.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Dryopteris affinis (Lowe) Fraser-Jenk.
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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1 January 2000
19 June 2021
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