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Lepisorus excavatus (bory ex Willd.) Ching

Species

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Characteristics

Rhizome with a white waxy covering and set with brown, clathrate, lanceolate to narrowly ovate-acuminate rhizome-scales up to 4 mm long with a paler subentire to weakly lacerate margin. Fronds spaced 4-12 mm apart, simple, membranous, deciduous, shortly to longly stipitate; stipe stramineous, up to 70 mm long, with a few scales when young; lamina narrowly lanceolate to linear, up to 330 x 27 mm, entire to weakly undulate, acuminate to obtuse, base widely to narrowly cuneate, completely glabrous or with a few scales along midrib when young. Sori in a line on either side of midrib in upper two-thirds of lamina, up to 4 mm in diameter at maturity.
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Rhizome with lanceolate to narrowly ovate-acuminate, light brown to concolorous rhizome scales. Fronds simple, undersurface glabrous or with a few scales along midrib, membranous, deciduous. Stipe up to 70 mm long. Lamina lanceolate to linear, up to 330 x 27 mm. Sori in a line on either side of midrib in upper two-thirds of lamina.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Images

Habit

Lepisorus excavatus habit picture by Sarami (cc-by-sa)

Leaf

Lepisorus excavatus leaf picture by Raphaël Houlet (cc-by-sa)
Lepisorus excavatus leaf picture by Gaëtan Ncl (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Lepisorus excavatus flower picture by Augustin Soulard (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Lepisorus excavatus world distribution map, present in Angola, Burundi, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Congo, Comoros, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Mauritius, Malawi, Mayotte, Nigeria, Réunion, Rwanda, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sao Tome and Principe, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17336620-1
WFO ID wfo-0001115967
COL ID 3TFKS
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 706468
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Synonyms

Drynaria excavata Lepisorus stolzii Pleopeltis stolzii Polypodium grevilleanum Polypodium stolzii Polypodium vesiculari-paleaceum Lepisorus bampsii Lepisorus corradii Pleopeltis rotunda Polypodium rotundum Phymatodes simplex Lepisorus mildbraedii Lepisorus phlebodes Lepisorus preussii Lepisorus rotundus Lepisorus vesiculari-paleaceus Pleopeltis corradii Pleopeltis phlebodes Pleopeltis vesicularipaleacea Polypodium bullatum Pleopeltis bampsii Pleopeltis excavata Polypodium excavatum Polypodium simplex Phymatodes excavata Polypodium preussii Lepisorus excavatus Polypodium phlebodes Polypodium mildbraedii Pleopeltis preussii Pleopeltis mildbraedii Pleopeltis grevilleana Pleopeltis simplex Drynaria phlebodes
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