Neurodium lanceolatum
3: 28. 1852.
Common names: Ribbon fern
Illustrated
Basionym: Pteris lanceolata Linnaeus Sp. Pl. 2: 1073. 1753 Paltonium lanceolatum (Linnaeus) C. Presl
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 2.
Roots brown, in dense mass often covering stems. Stem scales black to dark-brown, triangular-acuminate to lanceolate-acuminate, clathrate, papillate-ciliolate. Leaves erect-arching, 1–4.5 dm. Petiole less than 3.5 cm. Blade 20 × 1.3 cm, leathery; base narrowly cuneate to attenuate; apex acute to rounded. Sori to 6 cm, ending ca. 0.5 cm below apex of blade. 2n = 74.
Habitat: Epiphytic in hammocks and mangrove swamps, substrate subacidic to circumneutral
Elevation: 0 m
Distribution
Fla., Mexico, West Indies, Central America
Discussion
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
"dm" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property.
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3-celled +
irregular +
generally longer than wide +
continuous +
marginal +
simple +
linear;lanceolate-elliptic +
20 cm200 mm <br />0.2 m <br /> (?) +
absent +
leathery +
1.3 cm13 mm <br />0.013 m <br /> (?) +
Ribbon fern +
green +
aboveground +
glabrous +
Present +
filamentous +
absent +
monomorphic +
dimorphic +
erect-arching +
narrowed +
circinate +
entire;dentate +
dense +
absent +
greenish +
round +
1852 +
brown +
clathrate +
bicolored +
lacking +
lanceolate +
Illustrated +
monolete +
bilateral +
branched +
pruinose +
not whitish +
short-creeping +
long +
few;numerous +
clathrate +
black;dark-brown +
papillate-ciliolate +
granulate +
complex +
Neurodium lanceolatum +
Neurodium +
species +
simple +
parallel +
free +
obscure +
forked +
perennial +
terrestrial +
epiphytic +