Asplenium stoloniferum Bory

Species

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Characteristics

Rhizome up to 5 mm long, up to 2 mm in diam., erect to suberect, with black lanceolate scales, up to 1.5 mm long. Fronds caespitose, pale green, thinly herbaceous, arching, up to 140 mm long, regularly with green, stolon-like, efoliate fronds up to 200 mm long, rooting at rachis apex and producing new plants. Stipe filiform, green, up to 75 mm long. Lamina linear, decrescent towards base and apex, 1-pinnate, up to 150 x 13 mm, with up to 20 pinna pairs. Pinnae sessile, cuneate-obovate or rhomboid to rectangular, glabrous, with 3-7 teeth at outer margin. Sori 1-3 per pinna, up to 1.5 mm long. Indusium narrowly elliptic, entire, up to 0.8 mm wide.
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Rhizome erect, up to 3 mm in diameter, set with dark brown, lanceolate-acuminate, entire rhizome-scales c. 2 mm long. Fronds tufted, thinly herbaceous, not gemmiferous; stipe greenish, shorter than lamina, set with hair-like scales of different sizes; lamina linear, c. 120 x 16 mm, pinnate, lower pinnae decrescent; pinnae in up to 21 pairs, oblong to rhombic or deltate, base forming an angle of c. 90o, generally broader than long, outer margins sharply dentate, glabrous on both surfaces. Sori usually 2 or 3 per pinna, 2-3 mm long; indusium thinly membranous, entire to erose, c. 1 mm broad.
Terrestrial, epilithic or low-level epiphyte. Rhizome erect, with dark brown scales. Fronds laxly tufted, dimorphic, proliferating fronds without pinnae, elongate, filiform, horizontal, bearing plantlets at tips; normal fronds pinnate, lamina lanceolate, ± 40-100 x 10 mm, glabrous; pinnae widely spaced, unequally obtriangular or cuneiform, distal margins serrate to cuneate; rachis straw-coloured, glabrous; stipe greenish, glabrous. Sporangia in elongate, indusiate sori borne along veins.
Rhizome erect, set with dark brown rhizome scales. Plants stoloniferous with naked stolons. Stipe green. Lamina linear, ± 120 x 16 mm. Pinnae oblong to rhombic or deltate, base forming an angle of ± 90°, outer margins sharply dentate.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Asplenium stoloniferum world distribution map, present in Lesotho, Mauritius, Réunion, and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17052140-1
WFO ID wfo-0001110842
COL ID HLKF
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INPN ID 705907
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Synonyms

Asplenium kraussii Asplenium stoloniferum Asplenium delislei