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Antrophyum callifolium Blume

Species

Pteridophytes > Polypodiales > Pteridaceae > Vittarioideae > Antrophyum

Characteristics

Rhizome short erect; scales dark brown, linear-lanceolate, ca. 6 × 1 mm, apex long acuminate, bristlelike, margin sparsely denticulate, clathrate. Fronds clustered; stipe 1-3 cm, appressed, glabrous; lamina leathery, obovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 15-40 × 2-10 cm, widest above middle, apex acuminate or caudate, base attenuate along stipe; costa only visible at base; veins abundantly reticulate, raised abaxially, invisible adaxially. Soral lines continuous or interrupted, partly netted; paraphyses filiform, longer than sporangia. Spores trilete, tetrahedral-globose, surface papillate.
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Fronds lacking a distinct stipe or stipe very short. Lamina oblanceolate to ligulate-oblanceolate, 10-45 cm long, 1.5-6 cm wide, tapered to each end, pendent, dull green, often wrinkled, coriaceous; apex acute to acuminate, rarely forked; venation prominent abaxially, with long narrow areoles. Sori profuse, often broken or branched; paraphyses numerous, reddish, filiform, lacking enlarged terminal cells.
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Grows on trees and boulders in rainforest.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Uses medicinal
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Distribution

Antrophyum callifolium world distribution map, present in American Samoa, Australia, China, Fiji, Micronesia (Federated States of), Indonesia, India, Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Philippines, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Seychelles, Thailand, Tonga, Taiwan, Province of China, United States of America, Viet Nam, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna, and Samoa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17023050-1
WFO ID wfo-0001128390
COL ID F4J9
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INPN ID 454272
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Synonyms

Hemionitis callifolia Pteropsis marginalis Antrophyum johannis Hemionitis falcata Pteropsis blumei Taenitis blumei Antrophyum nanum Antrophyum falcatum Antrophyum callifolium Taenitis marginalis Antrophyum annamense Antrophyum alatum Antrophyum marginale
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