Accession Data

Ophioglossum pendulum

Family: Ophioglossaceae

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

Accession Data

Accession #: 200600067

Accession Date: 2006-06-12 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 3101

Quantity: 3

Source: Charles Alford

Culture: Grow in epiphyte mix in a hanging basket

Classification

Division: Ferns

Class: Polypodiopsida

Subclass: Ophioglossidae

Order: Ophioglossales

Family: Ophioglossaceae

SubFamily: Ophioglossoideae

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
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2011

References

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Tuesday, April 03, 2018.
  2. J.E. Burrows, M.Sc. & R.J. Johns, M.Sc., Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2001). Last accessed via JSTOR on Tuesday, April 03, 2018.
  3. Image #03 (original) by Xue Davis (Own work). Used with permission. Last accessed on Wednesday, October 10, 2018.

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