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Salpichlaena
Sign in to saveSalpichlaena is a genus containing two species of fern in the family Blechnaceae. Species of the genus are native to Central and South America. These ferns have climbing leaves with a rachis that twines around tree branches and other supports.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassPolypodiopsida
- OrderPolypodiales
- FamilyBlechnaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 83
- With media
- 57
- Family
- Aspleniaceae
- Collections
- YPM, UCMP, F, UOMNH, MO, BRIT
- Recorded in
- United States, Peru, Colombia, Panama, Bolivia, Ecuador, Brazil
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Salpichlaena is a genus containing two species of fern in the family Blechnaceae. Species of the genus are native to Central and South America. These ferns have climbing leaves with a rachis that twines around tree branches and other supports.
==Description== Terrestrial climbers with creeping, scaly rhizomes. Leaves are monomorphic to dimorphic and glabrous. The blade is 2-pinnate, with alternate, imparipinnate pinnae. Pinnules are entire or serrated at the apex and pedunculated. The rachis can grow up to 15 meters, is highly climbing, and voluble. Veins are simple or 1-forked near the base, connected by a submarginal branch. Sori are deciduous, leaving an apparently sterile pinnule. The indusium is tubular, dark brown, splitting irregularly, and breaking into fragments. It has a chromosome number of x=40.
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