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Volume IV (1988) - Flora of New Zealand Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons
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Phyllitis scolopendrium (L.) Newman

*P. scolopendrium (L.) Newman Hist. Brit. Ferns ed. 2, 10 (1844).

hart's tongue fern

Stipes densely scaly, 3-20 cm long. Laminae very narrowly elliptic, undivided, acute at apex, cordate at base, slightly undulate on margins, scaly, 20-30 × 3-4 cm. Sori to 2 cm long, linear, occupying > 1/2 width of laminae.

S.: Riccarton Bush (Christchurch), Dunedin.

Europe, Asia 1976

Shaded forest margins.

Fig. 1. A-B Polypodium vulgare, A frond, B sorus; C Phyllitis scolopendrium, frond. © All rights reserved. [Image: 4X3B]
Fig. 1. A-B Polypodium vulgare, A frond, B sorus; C Phyllitis scolopendrium, frond. © All rights reserved. [Image: 4X3B]
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