Pteridophyte | Literature for Sadleria pallida
Palmer, 2003. |
Blechnaceae | Bibliography |
Sadleria pallida | |
Common name(s): `ama`u, `ama`uma`u, ma`u, ma`uma`u, pua`a `ehu`ehu, `ama`u, `ama`u `i`i, `ama`uma`u, `i`i, `i`i`i, ma`u, ma`uma`u, pua`a `ehu`ehu |
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. | |
Habitat | Closed-canopy wet forests or on open, rainy, windswept ridges | |
Elevation | 25-2150 m |
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Habit |
Terrestrial, medium-sized; rhizomes decumbent to erect, up to 4 m long, branching. |
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Leaves |
Fronds erect, 30-105+ cm long; stipe grooved, pink to tan, naked except at bases or scaly throughout; scales linear-triangular, bases hastate, stiff, margin light brown, dark central rib extending to sharp-acuminate tip (some scales softer, tan, concolorous with hairlike tip), not glandular; blade 1-pinnate-pinnatisect to 2-pinnate at base of larger pinnae, lanceolate-elliptic; pinnae linear-lanceolate, upper surface green, dull, lower surface light green; ultimate segments 14-36 pairs (usually fewer than 30) per pinna, rectangular, tips obtuse, 0.6-1.9 cm long, basiscopic basal segments sometimes enlarged and overlying rachis; veins translucent on living material, extending to and touching cartilaginous margin, appearing as dark or raised lines on dried specimens. |
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Sori |
Indusia firm. |
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Notes |
Latin pallidus, pale, in reference to the generall lighter color of the fronds. |
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Contributor |
Nancy Khan |