Microlepia krameri C.M.Kuo

Species

Pteridophytes > Polypodiales > Dennstaedtiaceae > Microlepia

Characteristics

Plants terrestrial. Rhizome creeping, ca. 5 mm in diam. Fronds distant; stipe ca. 45 cm, densely scabrous hairy; rachis, rachillae, and veins densely puberulent. Lamina yellow-green when dried, bipinnate, ovate-oblong in outline, 60-80 × 40-50 cm, thinly papery, both surfaces glabrous; pinnae ca. 15 pairs, alternate, obliquely spreading, with stalk 2-4 mm, 4-8 cm apart, 20-25 × ca. 5 cm, with slender hairs; pinnules 20-25 pairs, alternate, ca. 1 cm apart, sessile, rhombiform-oblong, 1.5-2.5 × 1.2-1.3 cm, base cuneate, margin acroscopically pinnatifid up to 1/2 way to costa, apex shallowly crenate, obtuse. Veins abaxially prominent. Sori intramarginal; indusium slightly hairy.
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Growth form herb
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Distribution

Microlepia krameri world distribution map, present in China and Taiwan, Province of China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17510970-1
WFO ID wfo-0001233467
COL ID 42XP9
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Synonyms

Microlepia krameri