Botrychium spathulatum W.H.Wagner

Spathulate botrychium (en)

Species

Pteridophytes > Ophioglossales > Ophioglossaceae > Botrychioideae > Botrychium

Characteristics

Trophophore stalk 0--1 mm; blade shiny yellow-green, narrowly deltate, flat, 1-pinnate, to 8 × 2.5 cm, thick, leathery. Pinnae to 8 pairs, ascending, remote, distance between 1st and 2d pinnae not or slightly more than between 2d and 3d pairs, basal pinna pair approximately equal in size and cutting to adjacent pair, mostly narrowly spatulate to linear-spatulate and rounded or ± 2-cleft, lobed to unlobed to tip, margins mainly entire or occasionally irregularly and shallowly incised, apex rounded-notched, venation like ribs of fan, midrib absent. Sporophores 1--2-pinnate, 1.2--2 times length of trophophore. 2 n =180.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-9

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Distribution

Botrychium spathulatum world distribution map, present in Canada and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:273437-2
WFO ID wfo-0001115183
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Synonyms

Botrychium spathulatum