Accession Data
Lygodium japonicum
Family: Lygodiaceae
Country of Origin: Japan, to the Himalayas, to Northern Australia
Description: Fern with climbing, twining fronds of indeterminate growth, to 30 m (90 ft) long; main rachis wiry, stemlike. Leafy branches off main rachis (constituting the pinnae) compound, triangular in overall outline, 10-20 cm (4-8 in) long and about as wide. Leaflets (pinnules) lobed, stalked, with terminal lobes often dissected (pinnatifid), basal lobes irregularly lobed or dissected; leaf-blade tissue pubescent below with short, curved hairs. Fertile leaflets contracted in shape, with two rows of sporangia along the leaf margin, which is enrolled to partially cover the sporangia.ked and pinnate, margins serrate.
Accession Data
USDA Zone: 8a-11
Accession #: 199900060
Accession Date: 1999-06-08 00:00:00
Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering
Location: 1117
Quantity: 1
Source: Deb Wiley - Virginia Tech
Culture: warm temperate to tropical areas, listed as invasive species in the Southern United States, where it is having a significant negative impact upon native flora.
Classification
Division: Ferns
Class: Polypodiopsida
Subclass: Polypodiidae
Order: Schizaeales
Family: Lygodiaceae
Flowering Data:
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References
- Hortus Third, LH Bailey Hortorium, 1976
- Botanica, Turner & Wasson, 1997, CD-ROM Version
- Cal's Plant of the Week
- Identification and Biology of Non-Native Plants in Florida's Natural Areas, Editors : K.A. Langeland and K. Craddock Burks, Florida Exotic Plant Pest Council
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Monday, September 04, 2017.
- Lygodium japonicum at ARS-GRIN. Last accessed on Monday, September 04, 2017.
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