Asplenium flabellifolium Cav.

Species

Pteridophytes > Polypodiales > Aspleniaceae > Asplenium

Characteristics

Rhizome short, rather stout, clad in dark brown linear-attenuate paleae up to 5 mm. long; stipites tufted, rather few. Stipes green, very slender, reclining, 1-10 cm. long, with dense tuft of paleae at base and scattered paleae elsewhere when young. Rhachis very slender to filiform, decumbent to prostrate, often produced into long naked tips that root and produce offset plants; pinnae rather distant. Lamina 10-40 cm. long, linear, membr., flaccid, pale green, pinnate. Lateral pinnae 10-36; lower larger, subopp., upper gradually decreasing in size to apex of frond; flabellate-cuneate, very shortly stalked, coarsely crenate-dentate; veinlets flabellate. Two forms are met with: (a) larger pinnae 15-20 × 15-20 mm., sori up to 6 mm. long; (b) larger pinnae 3-10 × 3-10 mm., sori up to 4 mm. long. Sori oblique, narrow-oblong, us. cop., sts confluent; indusium delicate.
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Prostrate or pendent fern. Rhizome erect, scaly. Stipe and rachis mostly green, flaccid, ± glabrous, 1–15 cm long, 0.3–1 mm diam.; rachis often extending beyond uppermost pinnae and becoming proliferous at apices. Lamina very narrowly ovate to ± linear, pinnate, 4–30 cm long, 0.8–4 cm wide, pale green, ± glabrous. Pinnae in 7–30 pairs, mostly flabellate to cuneate; lower pinnae sometimes rhombic or triangular; bases broadly cuneate, shortly stalked; margins variously dentate or incised; largest pinnae 4–20 mm long, 5–20 mm wide at or near base, decreasing gradually upwards to an attenuate apex. Sori to 6 mm long. Perispores dark with fimbriate wings and tuberculate or veined lacunae; exospores 43.8–49.9 × 36.3–44.8 µm (means).
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Foliage retention evergreen
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Mature height (meter) 0.1 - 0.2
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Environment

Commonly found in rock crevices, among boulders, under overhangs, on rocky banks or in gorges, either in exposed situations or under open or closed forest, but also a low epiphyte on logs, or on tree fern or cycad trunks; tolerates a variety of rock types and grows from sea-level to alpine areas.
Light 4-6
Soil humidity 5-7
Soil texture 3-4
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-11

Usage

Uses medicinal
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Images

Asplenium flabellifolium unspecified picture

Distribution

Asplenium flabellifolium world distribution map, present in Australia and New Zealand

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17043580-1
WFO ID wfo-0001279774
COL ID HKDS
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Synonyms

Asplenium flabellifolium Asplenium flavelifolium f. tasmanica Asplenium flavelifolium var. dissecta