| Pteridophyte | Literature for Palhinhaea cernua
Kramer & Green, 1990; Palmer, 2003; Flora of Australia 1998; Brown & Brown, 1931; Lorence & Wagner, 2019. |
| Lycopodiaceae | Bibliography |
| Palhinhaea cernua | |
Common name(s): hulu `iole, huluhulu a `iole, wawae`iole |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | Widespread in the tropics and subtropics.In the Hawaiian Islands, indigenous to Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i. | |
| Habit |
Terrestrial. Main horizontal stems to 5 m or more long, creeping or looping over the ground, rooting at points of contact; upright stems (branchlet system) usually 1 stem per arch, dendroid, erect, occasionally climbing, commonly 0.3-1(-2) m tall, repeatedly branching to 5 times starting 3-20 cm above horizontal stem, glabrous or rarely hairy. |
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| Leaves |
Sterile leaves spirally arranged to subwhorled, clustered, linear-subulate to narrowly triangular, acuminate, strongly curved towards the shoot apex, 1.5-4.5 mm long, 0.2-1 mm wide, green to yellowish green, shiny, margin entire. |
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| Sori |
Strobili numerous, cylindrical, nodding, 5-15 mm long, 2-3 mm wide; sporophylls imbricate, pale yellow, 2-3 mm long, 1 mm wide, base ovate to rhomboid, apex acuminate, subulate, margin ciliate. |
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| Contributor |
David Lorence |