| Pteridophyte | Literature for Asplenium lobulatum
Palmer, 2003. |
| Aspleniaceae -- The Spleenwort Family | Bibliography |
| Asplenium lobulatum | |
Common name(s): spleenwort, `anali`i, pi`ipi`i lau manamana |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | Hawaii. Also native to Samoa, New Guinea, and Borneo.In the Hawaiian Islands, indigenous to Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i. | |
| Habitat | Common in mesic to wet forests. | |
| Elevation | 240-1525 m |
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| Habit |
Terrestrial, medium-sized; rhizomes creeping, covered with dark scales. |
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| Leaves |
Fronds 30-65 cm long, almost always proliferous on rachises near beginnings of pinnatifid tips; stipe grooved, dark brown, sparsely scaly when young; blade ranging from·1-pinnate with shallowly to deeply lobed distal pinnae margins to 1-pinnate-pinnatisect, lanceolate; thick, brittle, coriaceous, acuminate; rachises grooved; pinnae short-stalked, subopposite to alternate, 10-20 pairs, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 4-5 x 1-3 cm at base, upper and lower margins often forming oblong lobes with toothed margins, acroscopic bases rounded, usually lobed, sometimes enlarged and separate, occasionally almost becoming pinnules; veins free, forked. |
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| Sori |
Sori long, curving outward, extending from near costae to near marginal teeth at angles of 10-40°, a few shorter sori in upper basal lobes; indusia broad, thin. |
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| Notes |
Latin lobulus, lobule, a small lobe, referring to the lobes on the acroscopic base of the pinnae. |
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| Contributor |
Sally Eichhorn |