| Pteridophyte | Literature for Tectaria gaudichaudii
Palmer, 2003. |
| Tectariaceae | Bibliography |
| Tectaria gaudichaudii | |
Common name(s): `iwa`iwa lau nui |
| 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. |
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| Habitat | Moist, shady valleys and gulches | |
| Elevation | 210-1250 m |
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| Habit |
Terrestrial, medium-sized to large; rhizomes decumbent. |
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| Leaves |
Fronds 30-140 cm long, clustered, stipe glossy, mahogany brown or purple, scaly only at base, scales scattered, lanceolate brown, blade 1-pinnate-pinnatifid to bipinnatifid, deltate, dark green; rachises becoming winged distally, tips finally becoming deeply pinnatifid with sinuate, lanceolate lobes separated by broad angular sinuses, membranous; pinnae 3-10 pairs below pinnatifid blade tips, nearly opposite, lanceolate, pinnae at bases short-stalked, becoming adnate distally, deeply pinnatifid, adaxial costae and major veins densely covered with stubby, multicellular usually obtuse-tipped hairs; ultimate segments deeply crenulate to lobed; veins prominent, anastomosing freely to form areoles with occasional included veinlets, areoles adjacent to pinna costae long, linear, |
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| Sori |
Sori arranged in lines near veins leading to crenulate lobes, mostly on included veinlets; indusia kidney-shaped. |
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| Notes |
Name honors Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupre (1789-1854), French pharmaceutical botanist on Capt. Louis Claude Desaulses de Freycinet's Uranie voyage to Hawaii in 1819, and again in 1841 on La Bonite under Capt. August-Nicolas Vaillant. |
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| Contributor |
Nancy Khan |