Pteridophytes of the Society Islands |
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Page 44
... acute , cut nearly halfway to the costa at the base , most of them merely serrate , sessile or adnate , with broad base and obtuse or acute apex , the largest 4 cm . long , 13 mm . wide , subcoriaceous , costae bearing a few small brown ...
... acute , cut nearly halfway to the costa at the base , most of them merely serrate , sessile or adnate , with broad base and obtuse or acute apex , the largest 4 cm . long , 13 mm . wide , subcoriaceous , costae bearing a few small brown ...
Page 67
... acute or obtuse , the base broadly cuneate or rounded , brownish - green , subcoriaceous , the margin and costa beset with acicular paleae smaller and paler than those on the stipe , the surface similarly but more sparsely clothed ...
... acute or obtuse , the base broadly cuneate or rounded , brownish - green , subcoriaceous , the margin and costa beset with acicular paleae smaller and paler than those on the stipe , the surface similarly but more sparsely clothed ...
Page 80
... acute , very firm , up to 10 mm . long and 4 mm . wide ; spike long and square , mostly once forked , up to 20 cm . long , about 2-3 mm . thick , the fertile leaves strongly carinate , acute , curved upward , surpassing but incompletely ...
... acute , very firm , up to 10 mm . long and 4 mm . wide ; spike long and square , mostly once forked , up to 20 cm . long , about 2-3 mm . thick , the fertile leaves strongly carinate , acute , curved upward , surpassing but incompletely ...
Common terms and phrases
acuminate acute adnate altitude anastomosing apex apice articulate basal base bipinnate Borabora Brackenridge broad broadly Caudex ciliate clothed collection Copeland pl coriaceous costa creeping rhizome cuneate deciduous deltoid Diadem Drake Dryopteris Endemic epiphytic erect exindusiate Fautaua feet fertile fronds Fiji forked Forster fronds fronds pinnate genus glabrescent glabrous Grant Grantii Copeland hairy Hooker Huahine indusia indusium involucre lanceolate latis leaves linear Linnaeus longis lower lowest pinnae MacDaniels margin Matoereere meters Mettenius Moorea naked narrow oblique obtuse Ohiri Orofena Orohena ovate pairs paleae paleis Pantropic Papenoo pinnae pinnatifid pinnules plant Polynesia Polypodium preceding species Presl Quayle rachis Rhizome Rhizome creeping ridge to Aorai scales scaly segments sessile Setchell and Parks slender Society Islands sori sorus sparsely species nova pl sporangia stems sterile frond stipes stipes clustered stout subcoriaceous Swartz Tahaa tahitensis Tahiti Tahitian specimens tall Terrestrial ferns tripinnate Tropics type locality upper valley veins free venation wide winged