Athyrium filix-femina var. asplenioides

(Michaux) Farwell

Pap. Michigan Acad. Sci. 2: 13. 1923.

Common names: Southern lady fern lowland lady fern
Endemic
Basionym: Nephrodium asplenioides (Michaux) Desvaux Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 268. 1803
Synonyms: Athyrium asplenioides Athyrium filix-femina subsp. asplenioides (Michaux) Hultén
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 2.

Petiole 13–55 cm; scales light-brown or brown, lanceolate, 6–9 × 2 mm, ± crisped. Blade ovatelanceolate to lanceolate, 2-pinnate-pinnatifid, (18–) 25–60 × (5–) 10–30 cm, slightly narrowed proximally, broadest just above base to just below middle, apex acuminate or ± caudate. Pinnae usually stalked, oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, base truncate, apex acuminate. Pinnules oblong-lanceolate to narrowly deltate, base unequally cuneate, apex ± acute. Rachis, costae, and costules glabrous or with scales or pale glands. Sori elongate, straight or hooked at distal end or horseshoe-shaped; sporangial stalks with glandular-hairs; indusia ciliate, hairs glandular or nonglandular and ± as long as indusial width. Spores brown or dark-brown. 2n = 80.


Habitat: Moist woods, thickets, swamps
Elevation: 10–2000 m

Distribution

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Ala., Ark., Conn., Del., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Kans., Ky., La., Md., Mass., Miss., Mo., N.J., N.Y., N.C., Okla., Pa., R.I., S.C., Tenn., Tex., Va., W.Va.

Discussion

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

No values specified."timeslengthofblade" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property.

acute +, acuminate +  and caudate +
Masahiro Kato +
(Michaux) Farwell +
black;dark redbrown +
persisting +
cuneate +
Nephrodium asplenioides +
simple to commonly +
18 cm180 mm <br />0.18 m <br /> (25 cm250 mm <br />0.25 m <br />) +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br />) +
25 cm250 mm <br />0.25 m <br /> (?) +  and 60 cm600 mm <br />0.6 m <br /> (?) +
narrowed;2-pinnate-pinnatifid;ovatelanceolate;lanceolate +
reduced +
roundish +
Southern lady fern +  and lowland lady fern +
Ala. +, Ark. +, Conn. +, Del. +, Fla. +, Ga. +, Ill. +, Ind. +, Kans. +, Ky. +, La. +, Md. +, Mass. +, Miss. +, Mo. +, N.J. +, N.Y. +, N.C. +, Okla. +, Pa. +, R.I. +, S.C. +, Tenn. +, Tex. +, Va. +  and W.Va. +
10–2000 m +
often +  and glabrous +
Moist woods, thickets, swamps +
nonglandular +  and glandular +
ciliate +  and dentate +
monomorphic +
straw-colored +
13 cm130 mm <br />0.13 m <br /> (55 cm550 mm <br />0.55 m <br />) +
oblong-lanceolate +  and narrowly deltate +
sessile +  and short-petiolulate +
Pap. Michigan Acad. Sci. +
with scales or pale glands +  and glabrous +
round +, cuplike +, hoodlike +, reniform +, falcate +  and linear +
brown;light-brown +
persistent +
crisped;lanceolate +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (?) +
crenate +  and serrulate +
oblong-linear +  and narrowly deltate +
straight +
persistent +
with narrow sinus +  and attached +
discrete +
horseshoe--shaped +, hooked +  and elongate +
dark-brown +  and brown +
reniform +  and oblong +
dictyostelic +, unbranched +  and branched +
ascending +  and short-creeping +
Athyrium asplenioides +  and Athyrium filix-femina subsp. asplenioides +
Athyrium filix-femina var. asplenioides +
Athyrium filix-femina +
variety +
epiphytic +  and hemiepiphytic +