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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Pellaea Link

PELLAEA Link, 1841

Sori submarginal, covering tips of veinlets, protected by continuous reflexed margin of lamina. Sporangia stalked, us. without paraphyses; annulus incomplete, vertical; spores tetrahedral, ± globose, smooth to spinulose. Rhizome paleate, solenostelic, creeping or abbreviated. Frond pinnate to variously compound; veins free. A subcosmopolitan genus of some 80 spp.

Key

1
Pinnae oblong to suborbicular, obtuse, not falcate; lower pinnae not auriculate at base
1. rotundifolia
Pinnae narrow-lanceolate to linear-oblong, acute to subacute, ± falcate; lower pinnae us. auriculate at base
2. falcata
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