Pellaea breweri |
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Brewer's cliff-brake |
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Stems | ascending; stout; much-branched and forming a caudex; scales dense; long and very narrow, uniformly brown. |
Leaves | in more or less dense clumps from multiple apices; small; to about 20 × 4 cm. |
Petioles | up to half the leaf length, dark brown and glossy; color and texture extending into proximal part of rachis; distal rachis tip usually green, prominent annular articulation lines present near the petiole base. |
Blades | linear oblong lanceolate, pinnate-pinnatifid; pinnae twisted out of plane, curved forwards and upwards. |
Segments | broad; most deeply divided into 2(3) unequal lobes, acroscopic lobe largest; up to 1.5 × 1 cm, green; leathery, glabrous or glaucous; apex rounded to acute; base obtuse, truncate or subcordate; veins free; visible, shortly petiolate to subsessile. |
Sporangia | in submarginal lines along the margins of each lobe, mostly covered by a false indusium; waxy glands and farina absent. |
2n | =58. |
Pellaea breweri |
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Distribution | |
Discussion | Rocky soil and cliffs in the mountains. 1500–3100 m. BR, BW, ECas. CA, ID, NV, WA; most mountain ranges in the western US. Native. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 1, page 102 Duncan Thomas |
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