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Lygodiaceae

W/C = Wild Collected
Lygodium japonicum Swartz.

  • Common Name:
  • Family: Lygodiaceae

  • Country of Origin: Japan, to the Himalayas, to Northern Australia
  • Habitat:

  • Description: Fern with climbing, twining fronds of indeterminate growth, to 30 m (90 ft) long; main rachis wiry, stemlike. Leafy branches off main rachis (constituting the pinnae) compound, triangular in overall outline, 10-20 cm (4-8 in) long and about as wide. Leaflets (pinnules) lobed, stalked, with terminal lobes often dissected (pinnatifid), basal lobes irregularly lobed or dissected; leaf-blade tissue pubescent below with short, curved hairs. Fertile leaflets contracted in shape, with two rows of sporangia along the leaf margin, which is enrolled to partially cover the sporangia.ked and pinnate, margins serrate.
  • Culture: warm temperate to tropical areas, considered invasive in many warmer areas.
  • USDA Zone: 8
Restrictions:

  • Potentially Invasive Plant - Plants are not to leave Greenhouse!
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Accession Data:

  • Accession # 199900060
  • Source: Deb Wiley - Virginia Tech
  • Accession Date: 06-08-1999
  • Bench: 1208 - AUS:Indo-Burma B
  • Qty: 2 confirmed on 02-03-2012
Classification:

  • Division: Ferns
  • Class: Polypodiopsida
  • SubClass:
  • Order: Schizaeales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Lygodiaceae
  • SubFamily:
  • Tribe:
  • SubTribe:
References:

  1. Hortus Third, LH Bailey Hortorium, 1976
  2. Botanica, Turner & Wasson, 1997, CD-ROM Version
  3. Cal's Plant of the Week
  4. Identification and Biology of Non-Native Plants in Florida's Natural Areas, Editors : K.A. Langeland and K. Craddock Burks, Florida Exotic Plant Pest Council

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