Botrychium multifidum |
Botrychium echo |
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botryche à feuille couchée, leather grapefern, leathery grapefern |
echo moonwort, reflected grape-fern |
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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. |
to 4 pairs, spreading or only moderately ascending, well separated, distance between 1st and 2d pinnae not or slightly more than between 2d and 3d pairs, basal pinna pair approximately equal in size and cutting to adjacent pair, oblanceolate to linear-spatulate, ± parallel-sided, divided to tip, shallowly lobed or rarely 2-cleft, basal pinna cleft into single basiscopic projection and large acroscopic projection, margins entire, apex acute, venation pinnate. |
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. |
stalk 0–4 mm; blade shiny green, broadly oblong to oblong-deltate, 1–2-pinnate, to 4 × 3cm, firm. |
Pinnules | obliquely ovate, rounded, margins usually ± entire to shallowly crenulate, sometimes inconspicuously and shallowly denticulate, apex rounded, venation pinnate. |
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Sporophores | 2–3-pinnate, 1.2 times length of trophophore. |
1–2 pinnate, 1–2 times length of trophophore rachis. |
2n | =90. |
=180. |
Botrychium multifidum |
Botrychium echo |
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Phenology | Leaves green over winter, appearing in spring. | Leaves appearing in June, dying in September. |
Habitat | Widespread mainly in fields | Grassy mountain slopes, snow fields, road ditches, and sand dunes |
Elevation | 0–3000 m (0–9800 ft) | 2500–3700 m (8200–12100 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 |
AZ; CO; UT
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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.) |
Botrychium echo is one of four moonwort species that commonly produce clusters of minute, spheric gemmae at the root bases. This species tends to have a reddish brown stripe along the common stalk from the base of the trophophore stalk. Of conservation concern. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 2. | FNA vol. 2. |
Parent taxa | Ophioglossaceae > Botrychium > subg. Sceptridium > sect. Sceptridium | Ophioglossaceae > Botrychium > subg. Botrychium |
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Synonyms | Osmunda multifida, B. californicum, B. coulteri, B. silaifolium | |
Name authority | (S. G. Gmelin) Ruprecht: Bemerk. Botrychium 40. (1859) | W. H. Wagner: Amer. Fern J. 73: 57. (1983) |
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