Polypodium calirhiza |
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nested polypody |
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Stems | moderately stout, often white-pruinose, with dense brown lanceolate scales; taste slightly bitter and lacking strong licorice flavor. |
Leaves | to 30 cm long; petiole slender; to 13 × 0.2 cm; smooth. |
Blades | pinnatifid; to 18 × 8 cm, narrowly ovate to oblong, often slightly leathery; adaxial surface pubescent with whitish multicellular hairs (at least along rachis), lanceolate scales usually present on abaxial surface of rachis, usually more than 3 cells wide. |
Pinnae | narrow, lanceolate to oblong; to 3 × 0.6 cm; margin serrate; apex usually acute, not long-attenuate; veins anastomosing or not, forming areolae on some pinnae. |
Sori | less than 3 mm; sporangiasters absent. |
2n | =148. |
Polypodium calirhiza |
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Distribution | |
Discussion | On cliffs and rocks/gravel near the coast. 0–200 m. Est. CA; south to northern Mexico. Native. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 1, page 95 Duncan Thomas |
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Synonyms | Polypodium californicum |
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