Botrychium paradoxum |
Botrychium matricariifolium |
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Paradox moonwort, peculiar moonwort, two-spike moonwort |
botryche à feuille de matricaire, chamomile grape-fern, daisy-leaf moonwort, daisyleaf grape-fern, matricary grape-fern |
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Pinnae | to 7 pairs, somewhat ascending, approximate to slightly remote, 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 pairs, spatulate-ovate to narrowly ovate, divided to tip, ultimate segments squarish to linear, rounded to square to acute at apex, margins entire to lobed to fully dissected, apex rounded to acute, venation pinnate. |
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Sporophores | double, 2 per leaf, 1-pinnate, 0.5–4 cm. |
1–3-pinnate, 1.3–2.4 times length of trophophore. |
Trophophore(s) | converted entirely to second fertile segment, stalk 1/2 length of fertile segment. |
stalk 0–5 mm, to 1/6 length of trophophore rachis; blade dull, ± glaucescent green, oblong, 1–3-pinnate, to 10 × 9 cm, firm. |
2n | =180. |
=180. |
Botrychium paradoxum |
Botrychium matricariifolium |
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Phenology | Leaves appearing in spring, dying in late summer. | |
Habitat | Sporophores in June to August. Difficult to detect, plants usually hidden under other vegetation, in snowfields, secondary growth pastures | Old fields, secondary growth woods |
Elevation | 1500–3000 m (4900–9800 ft) | 0–1200 m (0–3900 ft) |
Distribution |
MT; UT; AB; BC; SK
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CT; DC; DE; IA; IL; IN; KY; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; NC; NH; NJ; NY; OH; PA; RI; TN; VA; VT; WI; WV; NB; NF; NS; ON; QC; SPM; Europe
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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.) |
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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 | B. lunaria var. matricariifolium | |
Name authority | W. H. Wagner: Amer. Fern J. 71: 24. (1981) | (Döll) A. Braun ex W. D. J. Koch: Syn. Deut. Schweiz. Fl., ed. 2 7: 1009. (1847) |
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