Ophioglossum pendulumClausen [family OPHIOGLOSSACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Lamoureux, C.H., 1984
Related name
Ophioglossum pendulum
Flora
Entry for OPHIOGLOSSUM pendulum L. [family OPHIOGLOSSACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2001) Author: J.E. Burrows, M.Sc. & R.J. Johns, M.Sc.
Names
OPHIOGLOSSUM pendulumL. [family OPHIOGLOSSACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. 2: 1518 (1763); Tardieu in Fl. Madag. 2: 6 (1951); Wieff. in Blumea 12: 332 (1964). Type: India, based upon a plate in Rumph., Herb. Amboin.: t. 37, fig. 3 (1741)
Information
Epiphytic herb, rarely terrestrial, evergreen. Rhizome shortly horizontal to creeping, 10–40 mm long, fleshy. Leaves 1–6, pendulous, simple or bifurcate; stipe 3–25 mm long, tapering gradually into the lamina; lamina linear, 0.2–2(–4) m long, 6–90 mm wide, apex acute to obtuse, sometimes furcate, base narrowly attenuate. Fertile spike 25–500 mm long, situated medially well above the base of the lamina, usually about 1/3–1/2-way up the leaf from the rhizome, pedicel 6–25 mm long, sporangial spike 15–450 mm long with 25–50 pairs of sporangia. Spores trilete (not examined). Chromosome number: n = ± 480. Fig. 3/1 (p. 9).
