| Pteridophyte | Literature for Asplenium kaulfussii
Palmer, 2003. |
| Aspleniaceae -- The Spleenwort Family | Bibliography |
| Asplenium kaulfussii | |
Common name(s): spleenwort, kuau |
| 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 | Mesic to wet, shady forests | |
| Elevation | 150-1200 m |
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| Habit |
Terrestrial, occasionally epiphytic or epipetric; medium-sized; rhizomes decumbent, 1-4 cm diameter, tips bearing many persistent stipe bases. |
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| Leaves |
Fronds 25-85 x 10-36 cm, usually not proliferous, a few populations with few to many proliferations on adaxial surfaces of lateral veins of several pinnae and frond tips; stipes clustered, dark brown to black, shiny, naked except at very base where thick, wide, dark brown scales are present; blade 1(2-)-pinnate, lanceolate, smaller at base, tips similar to lateral pinnae, shiny, bright green, glabrous; rachises green to brown; pinnae 3-25 pairs, linear-lanceolate, sometimes deeply divided, glabrous, 2-18 x 1-2.5 cm, basal pinnae gradually reduced to 1/2 size of middle pinnae, margins entire to coarsely dentate, sometimes lacerate; veins 1-forked. |
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| Sori |
Sori elongate, extending from costae to margins, sometimes shorter; indusia conspicuous. |
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| Notes |
Name honors George Friedrich Kaulfuss (1786-1830), German botanist and professor of forestry and botany at Halle, who described more than 20 new Hawaiian fern species based on Chamisso's collections (1816-1817) made during the Russian Kotzebue expedition. |
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| Contributor |
Sally Eichhorn |