Accession Data

Doodia caudata

Common Name: Small Rasp Fern

Family: Blechnaceae

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

Accession Data

Accession #: 199900039

Accession Date: 1999-05-13 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 2311

Quantity: 1

Source: AFS Spore Bank

Classification

Division: Ferns

Class: Polypodiopsida

Subclass: Polypodiidae

Order: Polypodiales

SubOrder: Aspleniineae

Family: Blechnaceae

SubFamily: Blechnoideae

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
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2013

References

  1. New South Wales FLORA ONLINE
  2. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Thursday, September 21, 2017.

Images

Doodia caudata