Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
Pteridophyte Literature for Ctenitis latifrons
Palmer, 2003.
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      Ctenitis latifrons

Common name(s): `akolea
General Information
DistributionHawaiian Islands.In the Hawaiian Islands, endemic to Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i.















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HabitatMesic to wet forests, mostly in dark, damp valleys, and in understory of 'ohi 'a forests
Elevation400-1500 m
Habit
Plants medium-sized to large; rhizomes decumbent.
Leaves
Fronds to 150 cm long; stipe adaxially rounded (on living plants), about 1/2 frond length, straw-colored, covered with short, obtuse-tipped chainlike hairs, glandular hairs, and fibrils that become scanty where scaly below, lower 1/3 covered with twisted, long-lanceolate, tan to dark brown scales, scales absent to sparse distally; blades 2- to 3-pinnate-pinnatifid, ovate-deltate, dark green, glabrous; rachises round (grooved on drying), densely clothed with very short chainlike hairs; pinnae 14-20 pairs, short-stalked proximally to adnate distally, lanceolate, basal pinnae longer, abaxial surfaces with many appressed or stalked glands; costae and costules round, densely covered with short chainlike hairs (many with glandular·tips) and scattered thin, long, narrow, lanceolate scales. Pinnules lanceolate; ultimate segments rectangular, slightly falcate, crenulate, tips obtuse; veins free, with scattered chainlike hairs.
Sori
Sori medial to marginal; indusia present or absent; if present, variable, from large to inconspicuous.
Notes
Latin latus, broad, wide, + frons, frond.
Contributor
Sally Eichhorn