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Species

Pteridophytes > Polypodiales > Aspleniaceae > Asplenium

Characteristics

Rhizome erect, c. 40 mm in diameter, set with brown, lanceolate-attenuate, hair-pointed, entire rhizome-scales, c. 8 mm long. Fronds tufted, thinly coriaceous, not gemmiferous; stipe green or purplish brown when dry, set with scattered hair-like scales; lamina ovate-oblong, up to 520 x 300 mm, pinnate, basal pinnae reduced; pinnae in c. 6 pairs, oblong-lanceolate (reduced pinnae ovate-deltate), base broadest, truncate, overlapping rhachis acroscopically, margin sharply serrate-dentate, upper surface glabrous, lower surface set with occasional hair-like scales. Sori borne midway between costa and margin, of irregular lengths, up to 18 mm long, the longest on the outermost branch-vein of a fork; indusium stramineous, thickly membranous, entire, c. 0.7 mm broad.
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Rhizome erect, up to 60 mm in diam., with stipe bases and dark brown to black, narrowly triangular to subulate scales, up to 8 x 1.5 mm, entire. Fronds caespitose, suberect to arching, up to 800 mm long. Stipe firm, brown to greenish grey, pale brown when dry, up to 24 mm long, sulcus with a central ridge adaxially, glabrous except for scales at base. Lamina 1-pinnate, ovate, oblong or obovate, up to 500 x 290 mm, with 3-8 pinna pairs, non-proliferous. Pinnae petiolate, firmly herbaceous, oblong-lanceolate, up to 180 x 45 mm, serrate, glabrous adaxially, subglabrous abaxially. Sori linear, 6-20 x 1 mm. Indusium entire, up to 1 mm wide.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Asplenium prionites world distribution map, present in Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17049580-1
WFO ID wfo-0001108052
COL ID HL8C
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Synonyms

Asplenium dufourii Asplenium prionites