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|accepted_name=Woodwardia fimbriata
|accepted_authority=Smith in Rees
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in Rees,Cycl.
|place=38(76). 1818
|year=1818
}}
|common_names=Giant chain fern
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Woodwardia chamissoi
|authority=Brackenridge
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|name=Woodwardia paradoxa
|authority=C. H. Wright
}}
|hierarchy=Blechnaceae;Woodwardia;Woodwardia fimbriata
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Blechnaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Woodwardia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Woodwardia fimbriata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>forming a stout caudex covered with petiole bases, suberect; scales light brown, many, lanceolate-attenuate. <b>Leaves</b> monomorphic, evergreen, numerous in vaselike cluster, 40-170 cm. <b>Petiole</b> straw-colored, sometimes reddish at base; base thickened, with densely set orange scales. <b>Blade</b> pale green, elliptic-lanceolate, 25-100 cm, scaly-glandular upon emergence but soon glabrate. <b>Pinnae</b> not articulate to rachis, in 8-24 pairs, narrowly deltate to lanceolate, pinnatifid; proximal to middle pinnae 12-42 × 2.5-8 cm. <b>Veins</b> anastomosing to form single row of areoles, then free to margin. <b>Sori</b> short and broad, mostly curved and confined to costular areoles, deeply sunken into blades. <b>Indusia</b> cartilaginous and vaulted; cells thickened, retaining configuration after dehiscence of sporangia. <b>2n</b> = 68.</span><!--

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|habitat=Redwood forests, mixed conifer forests, and mixed conifer-hardwood forests, always where moisture is present, such as stream banks or springs
|elevation=0-1000 m
|distribution=B.C.;Ariz.;Calif.;Nev.;Oreg.;Wash.;Mexico in n Baja California.
|discussion=<p><i>Woodwardia fimbriata</i> is confined primarily to the California floristic province; it is disjunct and local elsewhere.</p>
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name=Woodwardia fimbriata
|author=
|authority=Smith in Rees
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Woodwardia chamissoi;Woodwardia paradoxa
|basionyms=
|family=Blechnaceae
|habitat=Redwood forests, mixed conifer forests, and mixed conifer-hardwood forests, always where moisture is present, such as stream banks or springs
|elevation=0-1000 m
|distribution=B.C.;Ariz.;Calif.;Nev.;Oreg.;Wash.;Mexico in n Baja California.
|reference=None
|publication title=in Rees,Cycl.
|publication year=1818
|special status=
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|genus=Woodwardia
|species=Woodwardia fimbriata
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