| Pteridophyte | Literature for Doodia kunthiana
Palmer, 2003. |
| Blechnaceae | Bibliography |
| Doodia kunthiana | |
Common name(s): `okupukupu, `okupukupu lau`i`i, pamoho |
| 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. |
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| Habitat | Common in seasonally mesic to semidry, loamy forest floors and slopes. | |
| Elevation | 90-1220 m |
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| Habit |
Plants medium-sized; rhizomes decumbent, fronds clustered at apex. |
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| Leaves |
Fronds arranged in rosettes, 25-65+ cm long; stipe usually about 1/2 frond length, deeply grooved adaxially, brown; blade 1-pinnate basally, pinnatifid distally, lanceolate, slightly hairy or not, without marginal hairs; rachises grooved; pinnae linear-lanceolate, basal 3-7 pairs usually short-stalked, margin serrate-dentate; veins forked, joining shortly to form 1-3 layers of arched commissures near costae, then becoming single or again forked. |
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| Sori |
Sori short, 1-2 mm long, medial on outer margins of areoles and parallel with midribs, on vein commissures, discrete, separate, not contiguous, often in 2 or 3 rows on larger fronds, usually not close to midrib; indusia narrow, usually glabrous. |
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| Notes |
Name honors Karl Kunth (1788-1850), professor of botany at the University of Berlin. |
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| Contributor |
Sally Eichhorn |