Lindsaea orbiculata (Lam.) Mett. ex Kuhn

Species

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Characteristics

Rhizomes shortly creeping, sparsely scaly; scales appressed or spreading, castaneous, 2-4 cells wide at base, acicular at apex. Fronds approximate; stipe castaneous, 4-35 cm, quadrangular; lamina 9-25 × 1.5-15 cm, herbaceous to papery, 1-or 2-pinnate; if 1-pinnate then lamina linear, pinnae 10-22 pairs, dimidiate, rhomboid, flabellate, or orbicular, upper margin entire or erose in fertile pinnae or dentate in sterile pinnae, upper pinnae hardly or gradually reduced toward apex; if 2-pinnate then lamina with 1-5 pairs lateral pinnae, terminal pinna similar to or usually much larger than lateral ones, basal pinnae very small or fully developed; in 2-pinnate laminae, pinnules similar to those pinnae in 1-pinnate lamina but fewer, usually with 1-9 on each side of costa; veins free, evident. Sori marginal or submarginal, terminal on all veins; indusia linear, continuous, or rarely interrupted by incisions. 2n = 88*, ca. 300.
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Rhizome short-creeping, 1-1.5 mm ø; scales reddish brown, very narrowly triangular, to c. 2 mm long, to 4-seriate at base, a considerable apical portion uniseriate. Leaves close; petioles stramineous with dark base or dark to blackish brown throughout, abaxially at least in the upper part sharply bi-angular and if dark pale-margined. Lamina simply pinnate or bipinnate, herbaceous or chartaceous; pinnules dimidiate, very variable in shape, erose, free-veined. Upper pinnae of bipinnate leaves gradually to rather abruptly shortened, ± gradually passing into the non-conform terminal pinna. Terminal pinnules (segments) ± rhombic. Sori continuous or interrupted; indusium minutely to strongly and irregularly erose, ½ mm wide, usually falling short of the margin by half its width, rarely more strongly intramarginal or almost reaching the margin. Spores yellow to light brown, trilete, almost smooth, c. 25-30 μ.
Rhizome short-creeping, 1–1.5 mm diam.; scales narrow, reddish brown. Fronds ±monomorphic. Stipes clustered, mostly dark, shorter than the lamina. Lamina 1–2-pinnate, 7–30 cm long, herbaceous to chartaceous; apex long, 1-pinnate. Upper pinnules much-shortened; larger pinnules asymmetrically flabellate; smaller pinnules cuneate-subdimidiate, with an erose margin. Veins free, forked. Sori mostly continuous; indusium 0.3–0.5 mm wide, erose. Spores trilete.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Images

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Distribution

Lindsaea orbiculata world distribution map, present in Australia, China, Indonesia, Iceland, Japan, Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Myanmar, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, Province of China, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17135840-1
WFO ID wfo-0001107721
COL ID 3V2BT
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Synonyms

Lindsaea striata Adiantum triangulare Lindsaea orbiculata Lindsaea taiwaniana Adiantum orbiculatum Schizolegnia orbiculata Lindsaea flabellulata Lindsaea polymorpha Lindsaea copelandii Lindsaea longipes Schizoloma orbiculatum Lindsaea orbiculata var. orbiculata Lindsaea orbiculata var. polymorpha