Botrychium lanceolatum |
Botrychium multifidum |
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botryche élancé, lance-leaf grapefern, lance-leaf moonwort, red triangle moonwort, triangle moonwort |
botryche à feuille couchée, leather grapefern, leathery grapefern |
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Pinnae | to 5 pairs, ascending, approximate, distance between 1st and 2d pinnae not or slightly more than between 2d and 3d pairs, linear to broadly lanceolate, entire to divided to tip, margins with distinct lobes or segments, apex acute to rounded, venation pinnate. |
to 10 pairs, approximate to remote, horizontal to ascending, distance between 1st and 2d pinnae not or slightly more than between 2d and 3d pairs, divided to tip. |
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Trophophore | stalk 0–1 mm; blade dull to shiny green to dark green, deltate, 1–2-pinnate, to 6 × 7 cm. |
stalk 2–15 cm, 0.3–1.2 times length of trophophore rachis; blade shiny green, plane, ternate, 2–3-pinnate, to 25 × 35 cm, leathery. |
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Sporophores | 1–3-pinnate, 1–2.5 times length of trophophore, divided into several equally long branches (all other botrychiums have a single stalk or 1 dominant and 2 smaller). |
2–3-pinnate, 1.2 times length of trophophore. |
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Pinnules | obliquely ovate, rounded, margins usually ± entire to shallowly crenulate, sometimes inconspicuously and shallowly denticulate, apex rounded, venation pinnate. |
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2n | =90. |
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Botrychium lanceolatum |
Botrychium multifidum |
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Phenology | Leaves green over winter, appearing in spring. | |||||
Habitat | Widespread mainly in fields | |||||
Elevation | 0–3000 m (0–9800 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
AK; AZ; CO; CT; ID; KY; MA; ME; MI; MN; MT; NH; NJ; NM; NV; NY; OH; OR; PA; RI; TN; UT; VA; VT; WA; WI; WV; WY; AB; BC; NB; NF; NS; ON; QC; SK; YT; Eurasia
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AK; AZ; CA; CO; CT; IA; ID; IL; IN; MA; ME; MI; MN; MT; ND; NH; NJ; NV; NY; OH; OR; PA; RI; SD; UT; VA; VT; WA; WI; WV; WY; AB; BC; MB; NB; NF; NS; NT; ON; QC; SK; Greenland; Europe; nw Asia |
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Botrychium multifidum is rather similar to B. robustum (Ruprecht) L.Underwood of Japan, eastern China, and the former Soviet republics. Specimens identified as B. robustum have been collected on Unalaska Island. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 2. | FNA vol. 2. | ||||
Parent taxa | Ophioglossaceae > Botrychium > subg. Botrychium | Ophioglossaceae > Botrychium > subg. Sceptridium > sect. Sceptridium | ||||
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Synonyms | Osmunda lanceolata | Osmunda multifida, B. californicum, B. coulteri, B. silaifolium | ||||
Name authority | (S. G. Gmelin) Angström: Bot. Not. 1854: 68. (1854) | (S. G. Gmelin) Ruprecht: Bemerk. Botrychium 40. (1859) | ||||
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