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Pacific polypody

coast polypody, leather-leaved polypody

Stems

slender, usually white-pruinose;

scales dense, lanceolate, toothed; reddish brown, usually with paler margins;

taste acrid/bitter.

stout, white-pruinose, densely clothed in scales;

scales brown, longtoothed;

margins often pale;

taste bland.

Leaves

to approximately 30 cm long;

petiole well developed; up to 10 cm; slender, approximately 1 mm thick.

to 60 cm;

petiole to 25 × 0.2 cm.

Blades

pinnatifid, slightly leathery, glabrous above, 6–12 cm, occasionally longer, 2–4 cm wide, narrowly oblong or slightly wider in the mid-region;

hairs absent;

scales narrowly ovate; more than 6 cells wide, often sparse, mostly confined to the abaxial rachis.

pinnatifid, narrowly ovate; stiff and leathery, dark green; to 35 × 8 cm, with relatively few pairs of robust pinnae;

adaxial surface glabrous;

scales on abaxial surface scattered; broad; convex, brown, with pale margins.

Pinnae

short, oblong; up to 10 × 2.5 cm;

apex rounded or obtuse;

margins subentire to entire;

veins free.

oblong; up to 9 × 2 cm;

margin usually subentire;

apex rounded to acute; some veins anastomosing, forming indistinct areolae along the pinnae.

Sori

to 2.3 mm;

sporangiasters present, interspersed with the fertile sporangia.

round; large; over 3 mm, often absent on proximal pinnae;

sporangiasters absent.

2n

=74.

=74.

Polypodium amorphum

Polypodium scouleri

Distribution
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Discussion

Moist cliffs and rocky outcrops. 0–1000 m. Casc, CR. WA; north to British Columbia. Native.

Epiphytic and on rocks. 0–600 m. CR, Est. WA, CA; north to British Columbia, south to northern Mexico. Native.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 1, page 95
Duncan Thomas
Flora of Oregon, volume 1, page 96
Duncan Thomas
Sibling taxa
P. calirhiza, P. glycyrrhiza, P. hesperium, P. scouleri
P. amorphum, P. calirhiza, P. glycyrrhiza, P. hesperium
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