| Pteridophyte | Literature for Phlebodium aureum
Palmer, 2003. |
| Polypodiaceae | Bibliography |
| Phlebodium aureum | |
Common name(s): golden polypody, laua`e haole, rabbit's foot fern |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | Hawaii. Phlebodium aureum is native to tropical regions of Florida, the West Indies, Mexico, Central America, and South America.In the Hawaiian Islands, naturalized on Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i. | |
| Habitat | Mesic forests | |
| Elevation | 0-700 m |
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| Habit |
Plants medium-sized to large, epiphytic or terrestrial. Rhizome and stipe base scales forming a thick mat of long, fine, golden to light reddish brown scales. |
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| Leaves |
Fronds erect or arching, 30-100 cm long. Stipes 1/3-1/2 frond length, straw-colored to brown, often bluish, glabrous except at base. Blades deeply pinnatifid, narrowly oblong, 5-18 pairs of alternate lobes, tips long-pointed, terminal segments similar to lateral lobes, light green to bluish green, often glaucous, coriaceous, rachises and midribs of lobes usually dusky bluish. Lobes linear-oblong, acuminate. Veins bluish. |
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| Sori |
Sori in 1-2 rows on either side of midrib, arising at tips of single included veinlets or at junctures of 2 or 3 included veinlets. |
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| Contributor |
Sally Eichhorn |
