Tectaria subtriphylla (Hook. & Arn.) Copel.

Species

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Characteristics

Plants terrestrial, 20-70 cm tall. Rhizome long creeping or ascendant, stout, densely scaly at apex and stipe bases; scales stiff, dark brown, linear-lanceolate, 3-4 mm, membranous, bases rounded or cordate, entire, apices long acuminate. Fronds widely spaced; stipe dark stramineous, 10-40 cm, ca. 3 mm in diam. at base, covered throughout with light brown jointed hairs. Laminae subdimorphic, fertile fronds rather tall but narrowed, pinnate to bipinnatifid at base, deep green when dried, triangular-pentagonal, 10-35 × 10-25 cm, papery, both surfaces glabrescent to densely hairy; rachises stramineous, densely covered with articulate hairs; costae and costules raised on both surfaces, pubescent abaxially; terminal pinna trifurcate or acuminate, base cordate or cuneate to decurrent, terminal lobe ovate-lanceolate, pinnatifid or pinnate-lacerate, lateral lobes opposite, lanceolate, undulate, apices caudate; lateral pinnae 1-3 pairs, opposite, interval 1.5-3 cm, oblique; basal pinnae pinnate, ca. 15 cm, rather large, stalks 1-2 cm, lobes undulate or with orbicular segments; middle pinnae simple, becoming sessile upward, entire, undulate or with orbicular segments, broadly lanceolate, 10-12 cm, bases cordate, apices caudate. Veinlets forming subhexagonal areoles with cross veins, included veinlets forked. Sori small, orbicular, located at coupling veinlets, in irregular rows between adjacent main veins; indusia brown, reniform, small, deciduous.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Mature height (meter) 0.2 - 0.7
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-12

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Uses medicinal
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Distribution

Tectaria subtriphylla world distribution map, present in China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Puerto Rico, Taiwan, Province of China, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17361610-1
WFO ID wfo-0001117092
COL ID 7BMR6
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 709333
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Synonyms

Dryopteris subtriphylla Lenda hokutensis Lenda subtriphylla Polypodium subtriphyllum Tectaria subtriphylla Aspidium subtriphyllum Sagenia subtriphylla Aspidium subtriphyllum f. cuspidatopinnatum Aspidium hokutense Nephrodium subtriphyllum Bathmium subtriphyllum