Accession #: 199900039
Accession Date: 1999-05-13
Common name: Small Rasp Fern
Family: Blechnaceae
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Country of Origin: Australia to New Zealand
Description: "Rhizome short-creeping or tufted, covered with dark scales.
Fronds almost erect to decumbent, dimorphic, narrow-lanceolate, 15–30 cm high; stipe short, pale but dark towards base; lamina dark green, almost membranous to ± leathery, 1-pinnatifid to 1-pinnate with more than 1 pair of pinnae free, sessile to shortly stalked.
Sori in 1 row on each side of midrib and close to it, variable, ± circular to elongate, 1.5–2 mm long, becoming confluent with age."1
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Source: AFS Spore Bank
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