Accession #: 200600067
Accession Date: 2006-06-12
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Family: Ophioglossaceae
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Country of Origin: Madagascar, tropical Asia, Australia
Description: Epiphytic herb, rarely terrestrial, evergreen. Rhizome shortly horizontal to creeping, 10-40 mm long, fleshy. Leaves 1-6, pendulous, simple or bifurcate; stipe 3-25 mm long, tapering gradually into the lamina; lamina linear, 0.2-2(-4) m long, 6-90 mm wide, apex acute to obtuse, sometimes furcate, base narrowly attenuate. Fertile spike 25-500 mm long, situated medially well above the base of the lamina, usually about 1/3-1/2-way up the leaf from the rhizome, pedicel 6-25 mm long, sporangial spike 15-450 mm long with 25-50 pairs of sporangia. Spores trilete (not examined). Chromosome number: n = ~480.2
Uses:
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Source: Charles Alford
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Culture:
Grow in epiphyte mix in a hanging basket