Diplazium serratifolium Ching

Species

Pteridophytes > Polypodiales > Athyriaceae > Diplazium

Characteristics

Rhizome erect, black, 4-5 cm tall, robust, woody, stiff, with dense stiff, long, thick roots, apex densely scaly; scales black, lanceolate, 2-3 × ca. 0.4 mm at base, thick, small serrate at margin; fronds caespitose. Fertile frond ca. 75 cm; stipe black-brown at base, upward stramineous or green-stramineous, 30-45 cm, 2.5-3 cm in diam., stiff, base with sparse scales, upward glabrous, shallowly grooved adaxially; rachis stramineous, glabrous; lamina 1-imparipinnate, elliptic, 30-40 × 10-20 cm; lateral pinnae 1-5 pairs, equal in size, lower pinnae opposite or subopposite, with stalk 0.3-1 cm; upper pinnae mostly alternate, subsessile, oblique, elliptic-lanceolate, 11-18 × 2.2-4 cm, base broadly cuneate, symmetrical or asymmetrical, base of apical pinna usually narrowed, pinna margin shallowly serrate or shallowly repand throughout, incurved when dry, gradually narrowed to long acuminate at apex, slightly subfalcate; costae raised, rounded, shallowly grooved on adaxial side; veinlets prominent on both surfaces or visible on adaxial side, oblique, 3 or 4 per veinlet group, thin, reaching margin of lamina. Lamina thinly papery when dry, green or brown-green. Sori long or shortly linear, variable in length, oblique, from costa to pinna margin, on 2 or 3 veinlets per veinlet group, sori on acroscopic veinlet longest, all double, other sori short, single, not reaching vein endings.
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-12

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Distribution

Diplazium serratifolium world distribution map, present in China and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17388960-1
WFO ID wfo-0001118140
COL ID 36HXL
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Synonyms

Diplazium serratifolium