Botrychium multifidum |
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botryche à feuille couchée, leather grapefern, leathery grapefern |
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Pinnae | 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. |
Trophophore | 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. |
Pinnules | obliquely ovate, rounded, margins usually ± entire to shallowly crenulate, sometimes inconspicuously and shallowly denticulate, apex rounded, venation pinnate. |
Sporophores | 2–3-pinnate, 1.2 times length of trophophore. |
2n | =90. |
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; 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 |
Discussion | 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.) |
Source | FNA vol. 2. |
Parent taxa | Ophioglossaceae > Botrychium > subg. Sceptridium > sect. Sceptridium |
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Synonyms | Osmunda multifida, B. californicum, B. coulteri, B. silaifolium |
Name authority | (S. G. Gmelin) Ruprecht: Bemerk. Botrychium 40. (1859) |
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