| Pteridophyte | Literature for Elaphoglossum wawrae
Palmer, 2003. |
| Dryopteridaceae | Bibliography |
| Elaphoglossum wawrae | |
Common name(s): `ekaha, Hart's tongue fern, hoe a Maui, `ekaha, hoe a Maui, laukahi |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | Hawaiian Islands.In the Hawaiian Islands, endemic to Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Maui, Hawai`i. | |
| Habitat | Mesic to wet forests | |
| Elevation | 800-2100 m |
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| Habit |
Epiphytic or terrestrial, small to medium-sized; rhizomes short-creeping, 3-5 mm diameter (including scales), bearing many appressed brown to straw-colored scales with darker centers, 2-3 mm long, becoming naked with age, phyllopodia conspicuous, dark. |
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| Leaves |
Stipes close, 1-15 cm long, straw-colored, lacking wings, often sparsely scaly; sterile blades 8-42 cm long, erect, coriaceous, elliptic with obtuse to acute apexes, gradually tapering into stipes, one or both surfaces often bearing tiny scales, especially along abaxial midrib; margins often revolute, blades not glandular; fertile blades usually narrower than sterile ones, stipes proportionately much longer; veins obscure, parallel, free and forked. |
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| Notes |
Name honors Heinrich W. Wawa (1831-1887), Moravian-Austrian physician and botanist and member of the Austrian East Asiatic Exploring Expedition on the frigate Donau under Admiral Petz; Wawra collected plants in Hawai`i in 1869 and 1870. |
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| Contributor |
Nancy Khan |
