Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
Literature for Polypodium pellucidum
Palmer, 2003. Literature for Polypodium pellucidum var. acuminatum
Palmer, 2003. Literature for Polypodium pellucidum var. pellucidum
Palmer, 2003. Literature for Polypodium pellucidum var. vulcanicum
Palmer, 2003.
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      Polypodium pellucidum
General Information
DistributionHawaiian Islands.
Habit
Terrestrial, sometimes epiphytic, medium-sized, colony-forming; rhizomes medium- to long-creeping.
Leaves
Fronds erect or spreading, distant to clumped, up to 55 cm long; stipe scaly, scales limited to phyllopodia, brown to nearly black, margin toothed and with short hairs; blade deeply pinnatifid (occasionally 1-pinnate-pinnatisect or fully 2-pinnate), oblong-triangular to narrowly oblong, coriaceous, lower lobes with or without wings at sinus bases, tips rounded to truncate, lobes 8-45 pairs, margins entire to crenate to sometimes pinnatifid, cartilaginous, with small, short, teeth facing toward tips, with or without transparent false veins between true veins and attached to the margins at small sinuses but not joining other veins, hairs on abaxial veins and blades rare (occasionally plentiful especially on var. acuminatum), short, round, 3-celled, tips round; veins free, translucent, usually 3-forked, ending in club-shaped expansions short of margins.
Sori
Sori usually submedial or occasionally medial.
Notes
Latin pellucidus, clear, transparent, referring to the translucent venation.
Contributor
Sally Eichhorn