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Polypodium plumula

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Name

Identification
Polypodium plumula Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd. [family POLYPODIACEAE ] (stored under name); Pecluma plumula M.G.Price [family POLYPODIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Polypodium plumula
  • Polypodium pulchrum
  • Polypodium cupreolepis
  • Pecluma plumula
Common name
  • Plume polypody, Flora of North America Vol. 2

Flora

Entry for Pecluma plumula (Humboldt & Bonpland ex Willdenow) M. G. Price [family POLYPODIACEAE]
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 2,
Names
Pecluma plumula (Humboldt & Bonpland ex Willdenow) M. G. Price [family POLYPODIACEAE], Amer. Fern J., 73: 115. 1983
Polypodium plumula Humboldt & Bonpland ex Willdenow [family POLYPODIACEAE], Sp. Pl., 5(1): 178. 1810
Treatment Author(s)
A. Murray Evans
Information
Stems ca. 5 mm diam.; scales dark brown, linear-lanceolate. Leaves pendent, sometimes erect in small plants. Petiole black, 1/10--1/5 length of blade, hairs few, unbranched; scales ovate to cordate, conspicuous, inflated. Blade linear-elliptic, 15--50 × 3--7 cm; base abruptly cuneate; apex tapering to acute. Segments linear, 1.5--2.5 mm wide, sparsely short-pubescent; segments at base of blade abruptly reduced to lobes, not deflexed. Veins 1-forked. Sori round; sporangia with 64 spores. 2 n = 148.
Phenology
Sporulating all year
Altitude range
0 m
Distribution
MexicoWest IndiesCentral AmericaSouth America to s Brazil.USA Fla.

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