Polystichum imbricans |
Polystichum setigerum |
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imbricate sword-fern, narrow-leaf sword fern, rock sword-fern |
Alaska holly fern, Alaska sword fern |
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Stems | ascending to erect. |
erect. |
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Leaves | erect to arching back at tip, 2–8 dm; bulblets absent. |
arching, 4–10 dm; bulblets absent. |
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Petiole | 1/4–1/3 length of leaf; scales abruptly diminishing in size distally and falling off early but retaining conspicuous tuft of brown scales at base. |
1/8–1/5 length of leaf, densely scaly; scales light brown, gradually diminishing in size distally. |
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Blade | linear-lanceolate to linear, 1-pinnate, base not or slightly narrowed. |
lanceolate, deeply 1-pinnate-pinnatifid to 2-pinnate, base narrowed. |
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Pinnae | oblong, slenderly lanceolate, or falcate, usually overlapping, in 1 plane or twisted out of plane of blade, 2–4 cm; base oblique, auricles well developed; margins serrulate-spiny with teeth ascending; apex cuspidate or apiculate with subapical teeth smaller than apical tooth; microscales lanceolate to linear with straight or sharply angular projections, sparse, on abaxial surface only. |
lanceolate, not overlapping, in 1 plane, 4–8 cm, base oblique, margins incised to costa on middle pinnae, serrulate-spiny with teeth spreading-ascending, apex acute-apiculate with subapical and apical teeth same size; microscales filiform, sparse abaxially, confined to costa adaxially. |
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Indusia | entire to sharply dentate. |
erose-ciliate. |
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Spores | dark brown. |
brown. |
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2n | = 246. |
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Polystichum imbricans |
Polystichum setigerum |
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Habitat | Forest floor in lowland coastal forests | |||||
Elevation | 0–250 m (0–800 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
CA; OR; WA; BC; only in the flora
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AK; BC |
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Discussion | Polystichum imbricans is one of the postulated ancestors of two allopolyploids, P. californicum and P. scopulinum (D. H. Wagner 1979). Relationships to P. munitum are discussed under that species. Subspecies 2. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Polystichum setigerum is disjunct on Attu Island at the western tip of the Aleutian Archipelago. It is presumed to be of hybrid origin, the result of a cross between P. munitum and P. braunii (D. H. Wagner 1979). This hybrid has been produced experimentally (A. Sleep and T. Reichstein 1967) and is reported from British Columbia (see discussion under P. braunii). (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 | Dryopteridaceae > Polystichum | Dryopteridaceae > Polystichum | ||||
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Synonyms | Aspidium munitum var. imbricans, P. munitum subsp. imbricans, P. munitum var. imbricans | Nephrodium setigerum, P. braunii subsp. alaskense, P. braunii var. alaskense | ||||
Name authority | (D. C. Eaton) D. H. Wagner: Pteridologia 1: 50. (1979) | (C. Presl) C. Presl: Tent. Pterid. 83. (1836) | ||||
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