Athyrium dissitifolium (Baker) C.Chr.

Species

Pteridophytes > Polypodiales > Aspleniaceae > Athyrium

Characteristics

Rhizomes, shortly creeping or ascending, densely scaly at apex and stipe bases; scales brown, linear-lanceolate, fibriform at apex. Fronds caespitose; fertile fronds 20-65 cm; stipe stramineous, (5-)20-30 cm, up to 2.5 mm in diam.; lamina pinnate-pinnatilobate to 2-pinnate, broadly lanceolate, 15-40 × 5-12 cm, base as wide as above, apex long acuminate; pinnae 12-25 pairs, alternate, subspreading, subsessile, lanceolate, 2.5-14 × 0.7-4 cm, base truncate, pinnatipartite to pinnate, apex long acuminate; pinnules or pinna segments ca. 12 pairs, alternate, approximate, oblong to broadly lanceolate, 0.5-2 × 2-5 mm, margin entire or serrate, apex obtuse, obtusely pointed, or acute. Veins inconspicuous adaxially, visible abaxially, pinnate, ca. 7 pairs, oblique, simple. Lamina thickly papery when dried, greenish brown, glabrate on both surfaces; rachis and costae on abaxial surface stramineous, glabrate. Sori orbicular or elliptic, supramedial, 5 or 6 pairs per pinnule or segment, exindusiate. Perispore surface with prominent folds. 2n = ca. 80.
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-12

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Distribution

Athyrium dissitifolium world distribution map, present in China, India, Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17305960-1
WFO ID wfo-0001117797
COL ID JFL9
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Synonyms

Nephrodium dissitifolium Dryopteris aristulata Polypodium apicidens Phegopteris incrassata Dryopteris incrassata Polypodium dissitifolium Dryopteris dissitifolia Athyrium fasciculatum Dryopteris apicidens Athyrium dissitifolium Athyrium dissitifolium var. dissitifolium Athyrium dissitifolium var. funebre Athyrium drepanopteron var. funebre