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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Dicksonia L'Hér.

DICKSONIA L'Heritier, 1788

Veins pinnately forked. Sorus globose, on apices of veinlets; receptacle ± elevated; sporangia subsessile; indusium coriac. to submembr. About 25 spp.

Key

1
Stipes and rhachis very dark brown to blackish, roughened by enlarged bases of deciduous hairs; stipes base long persistent after fall of frond; caudex slender
1. squarrosa
Stipes and rhachis light to yellowish brown, smooth or only faintly roughened by hair bases; stipes base falling with frond; caudex very stout, or if slender then prostrate
2
2
Caudex erect, very stout, enlarged by investiture of matted rootlets
2. fibrosa
Caudex prostrate, slender, or if stout and erect then not over 2 m. long
3. lanata
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