| Pteridophyte | Literature for Adenophorus hymenophylloides
Palmer, 2003. |
| Polypodiaceae | Bibliography |
| Adenophorus hymenophylloides | |
Common name(s): pai, palai huna |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | Hawaiian Islands.In the Hawaiian Islands, endemic to Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i. | |
| Habitat | Wet forests, usually found growing in moss on the sides or beneath branches of trees in wet forests. | |
| Elevation | 350-1750 m |
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| Habit |
Epiphytic, delicate, linear, pendent; rhizomes short. |
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| Leaves |
Fronds clustered, pendulous, 2-20 cm long; stipe often 1/10 frond length or less, less than 0.3 mm diameter including scales; blade 1-pinnate-pinnatifid to occasionally nearly 2-pinnate, long-linear, small, chartaceous; rachises unwinged; pinnae 10-40(-75) pairs, not closely spaced, 2-10 mm long, often pinnatifid on acroscopic side of pinnae only, red or amber glands plentiful on both surfaces and margins, often deciduous with age. |
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| Sori |
Sori marginal to submarginal near tips of lobes, when mature often wider than lobe. |
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| Notes |
Greek hymen, membrane, + phyllon, leaf, plus-oides, resembling, in reference to its thin leaf. |
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| Contributor |
Sally Eichhorn |