| Pteridophyte | Literature for Cyrtomium falcatum
Palmer, 2003. |
| Dryopteridaceae | Bibliography |
| Cyrtomium falcatum | |
Common name(s): holly fern |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | Native to eastern Asia, including China, South Korea, Japan, the Ryukyus, and Taiwan.In the Hawaiian Islands, naturalized on Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i. | |
| Habitat | Dry, mesic, to wet forest floors and valleys, it prefers windward sea cliffs | |
| Elevation | 0-1525 m |
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| Habit |
Rhizomes erect, short, densely scaly. |
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| Leaves |
Fronds 30-60 cm long; stipe straw-colored, densely scaly at base, sparsely scaly distally, scales brown to dark brown, ovate-lanceolate, membranous; blade 1-pinnate, ovate-lanceolate, coriaceous; rachises with many light brown hairs and hairlike scales; pinnae 5-14 pinna pairs, short-stalked, falcate to ovate-falcate, 7-13 cm long, very glossy dark green above, lighter green below, coriaceous, adaxial surface with many light brown hairs and hairlike scales, base elliptic to rounded, margin entire or undulate, never serrate, tips acuminate; veins reticulate, forming areoles with included veinlets, raised abaxially, obscure adaxially. |
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| Sori |
Sori plentiful, round, small, about 1 mm diameter, borne on veins in areoles; indusia peltate. |
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| Notes |
Latin falcatus, sickle-shaped, in reference to the shape of the pinnae. |
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| Contributor |
Sally Eichhorn |