Polystichum lonchitis |
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Northern holly fern |
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Stems | erect. |
Leaves | to 50 cm but usually smaller, 10 cm or even shorter in specimens from exposed sites; bulbils absent. |
Petiole | short; less than 20% of the leaf length; leaves sometimes subsessile; chaffy scales sparse to dense on the petiole and rachis. |
Blades | 1-pinnate; very narrow; more or less linear; to approximately 45 × 5 cm; widest in the mid-region and tapered to apex and base; microscales narrow on abaxial surface; adaxial surface glabrous. |
Pinnae | oblonglanceolate, slightly falcate; up to 4 × 1.5 cm; lowest pinnae often broadly triangular, rarely overlapping; in 1 plane; margins regularly spiny-toothed; spines conspicuous, spreading or angled forward, acroscopic auricle large, broadly triangular; ovate, bearing several spreading spines. |
Sori | with irregularly toothed indusia. |
2n | =82. |
Polystichum lonchitis |
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Distribution | |
Discussion | Shaded, rocky or occasionally wet places. 300–3000 m. BR, BW, Casc, ECas, Sisk. CA, ID, NV, WA; north to AK, circumboreal. Native. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 1, page 76 Duncan Thomas |
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