Botrychium paradoxum |
Botrychium lanceolatum |
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Paradox moonwort, peculiar moonwort, two-spike moonwort |
botryche élancé, lance-leaf grapefern, lance-leaf moonwort, red triangle moonwort, triangle moonwort |
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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. |
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Sporophores | double, 2 per leaf, 1-pinnate, 0.5–4 cm. |
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). |
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Trophophore(s) | converted entirely to second fertile segment, stalk 1/2 length of fertile segment. |
stalk 0–1 mm; blade dull to shiny green to dark green, deltate, 1–2-pinnate, to 6 × 7 cm. |
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2n | =180. |
=90. |
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Botrychium paradoxum |
Botrychium lanceolatum |
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Habitat | Sporophores in June to August. Difficult to detect, plants usually hidden under other vegetation, in snowfields, secondary growth pastures | |||||
Elevation | 1500–3000 m (4900–9800 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
MT; UT; AB; BC; SK
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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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Discussion | The leaf structure of Botrychium paradoxum is uniform and unique. Very rare teratological individuals of other moonwort species may have trophophores partially or wholly transformed into sporophores. Botrychium × watertonense W.H. Wagner, known only from one locality in western Alberta, is the sterile hybrid of B. hesperium and B. paradoxum. It can be identified by its trophophore pinnae; all are bordered with sporangia. It may reproduce by some unknown mechanism, such as unreduced spores (W.H. Wagner Jr., F. S. Wagner, et al. 1984). Of conservation concern. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 2. | FNA vol. 2. | ||||
Parent taxa | Ophioglossaceae > Botrychium > subg. Botrychium | Ophioglossaceae > Botrychium > subg. Botrychium | ||||
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Synonyms | Osmunda lanceolata | |||||
Name authority | W. H. Wagner: Amer. Fern J. 71: 24. (1981) | (S. G. Gmelin) Angström: Bot. Not. 1854: 68. (1854) | ||||
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