Diplazium mettenianum (Miq.) C.Chr.

Species

Pteridophytes > Polypodiales > Athyriaceae > Diplazium

Characteristics

Plants evergreen, small to medium-sized. Rhizome slender, creeping, black-brown, densely scaly at apex; scales black or black-brown, shiny, narrowly lanceolate, ca. 3 mm, thickly membranous, toothed at margin. Fronds distant; stipe brown, base with sparse, narrow lanceolate, brown scales, upward grooved on adaxial side; lamina 1-pinnate or pinnatilobate to pinnatipartite, deltoid, broadly lanceolate-deltoid, or ovate-lanceolate, apex acuminate; pinnae alternate or subopposite, subspreading, sickle-shaped lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, base truncate or broadly cuneate, stalked or subsessile; veins pinnate, not prominent adaxially, visible abaxially, veinlets simple or forked in basal lobes, ascending. Lamina papery, green or gray-green when dry, both surfaces glabrous; rachis stramineous, glabrous, grooved adaxially. Sori linear, slightly curved, 2-5(-7) pairs per pinna lobe, single or basal sori usually double, medial; indusia light brown, thinly membranous, entire, persistent. Spores reniform, perispore hyaline, ornamentation slightly rugate, not prominently granular.
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-12

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Distribution

Diplazium mettenianum world distribution map, present in China, Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, Province of China, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1020504-2
WFO ID wfo-0001116768
COL ID 36HQV
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Synonyms

Allantodia agyokuensis Allantodia metteniana Asplenium mettenianum Diplazium mettenianum Diplazium cavaleriei Athyrium mettenianum Asplenium textorii Diplazium lohfauense Diplazium isobasis Diplazium textorii Diplazium agyokuense Allantodia metteniana var. metteniana Diplazium japonicum var. textori

Lower taxons

Allantodia metteniana var. fauriei Allantodia metteniana var. isobasis