Diplazium kappanense Hayata

Species

Pteridophytes > Polypodiales > Athyriaceae > Diplazium

Characteristics

Plants evergreen, medium-sized. Rhizome ascending to erect, brown, densely scaly at apex; scales black-brown to black, shiny, linear-lanceolate, ca. 1.5 cm, thickly membranous, margin with black, narrow band, toothed, apex filiform; fronds caespitose. Fertile frond up to ca. 1 m; stipe brown at base, upward green-stramineous, 30-45 cm, ca. 6 mm in diam., base densely scaly; scales brown, linear-lanceolate, upward glabrous, grooved adaxially; lamina 2-pinnate with pinnules pinnatifid, deltoid to ovate-deltoid, 50-70 × 40-60 cm, apex acuminate; pinnae ca. 10 pairs, alternate, slightly ascending, with stalk up to 4 cm, 1-pinnate with pinnules pinnatifid; basal pinnae largest, oblong, 25-30 × 15-20 cm, slightly narrowed to base, base truncate, apex acuminate; pinnules 10-12 pairs, alternate, spreading, with stalk ca. 5 mm, lanceolate, ca. 10 × 2 cm, base slightly wider, truncate or broadly cuneate, pinnatilobate to 1/3 from margin, apex long acuminate; pinnule lobes up to 10 pairs, subspreading, oblong, ca. 5 mm wide, margin minutely serrate, apex rounded or subtruncate; veins pinnate, veinlets 4 or 5 pairs, simple, ascending. Lamina dark green when dry, herbaceous, glabrous on both surfaces; rachis green-stramineous, shallowly grooved adaxially, costae and costules abaxially with sparse, linear diamond-shaped, brown, small scales or subglabrous. Sori oblong, short, straight, 1-2 mm, 1 or 2 pairs per lobe, medial; indusia brown, oblong, membranous, opening acroscopically, persistent. Spores hemispherical, perispore with aculeate protuberances on surface.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Diplazium kappanense world distribution map, present in China, Thailand, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17321260-1
WFO ID wfo-0000154531
COL ID 36HM9
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Synonyms

Diplazium kappanense Allantodia kappanensis Diplazium kappanensis