View source for Thelypteris sclerophylla

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|accepted_name=Thelypteris sclerophylla
|accepted_authority=(Poeppig ex Sprengel) C. V. Morton
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Amer. Fern J.
|place=41: 87. 1951
|year=1951
}}
|common_names=Stiff star-hair fern
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Aspidium sclerophyllum
|authority=Poeppig ex Sprengel
|rank=species
|publication_title=Syst. Veg.
|publication_place=4(1): 99. 1827
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Dryopteris sclerophylla
|authority=(Poeppig ex Sprengel) C. Christensen
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Goniopteris sclerophylla
|authority=(Poeppig ex Sprengel) Wherry
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Thelypteridaceae;Thelypteris;Thelypteris subg. Goniopteris;Thelypteris sclerophylla
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Thelypteridaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Thelypteris]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Thelypteris subg. Goniopteris]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Thelypteris sclerophylla]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 2
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|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>short-creeping to suberect, 5–8 mm diam. <b>Leaves</b> monomorphic, evergreen, clustered, 20–55(–80) cm. <b>Petiole</b> straw-colored, 5–18(–25) cm × 1–3 mm, at base with brown, lanceolate, stellate-hairy scales. <b>Blade</b> 15–40(–55) × 5–10 cm, proximal 2–5(–10) pairs of pinnae gradually reduced, blade gradually narrowed distally to a pinnatifid apex. <b>Pinnae</b> 18–25 pairs, 2–5(–8) × 1–1.5(–2) cm, deeply serrate to incised nearly 3/4 of width, distal pinnae often strongly adnate; segments of rather harsh texture, somewhat oblique, rounded-deltate to often acute; proximal pair of veins from adjacent segments united below sinus with excurrent vein. <b>Indument</b> on both surfaces of numerous, sessile or short-stalked, stellate hairs 0.1–0.2 mm on costae, veins, and blade tissue; rachises and costae sometimes with longer simple hairs to 0.8 mm abaxially. <b>Sori</b> round, medial to supramedial; indusia tan, densely stellate-hairy; sporangia glabrous. <b>2n</b> = 144.</span><!--

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|habitat=Terrestrial or on rock in limestone hammocks
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=Fla.;West Indies in the Greater Antilles.
|discussion=<p>In the flora <i>Thelypteris sclerophylla</i> is known only from Dade County, Florida, where it is rare.</p><!--
--><p>C. Christensen (1913), C. V. Morton (1951), and D. B. Lellinger (1985) have attributed the basionym to Kunze in Sprengel, but Sprengel clearly credited Poeppig, rightly or wrongly. Sprengel's original description also differs in a number of details from that by G. Kunze (Linnaea 9: 92. 1834), so that Kunze's later attribution of the basionym to himself cannot be accepted.</p>
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name=Thelypteris sclerophylla
|authority=(Poeppig ex Sprengel) C. V. Morton
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Dryopteris sclerophylla;Goniopteris sclerophylla
|basionyms=Aspidium sclerophyllum
|family=Thelypteridaceae
|habitat=Terrestrial or on rock in limestone hammocks
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=Fla.;West Indies in the Greater Antilles.
|reference=None
|publication title=Amer. Fern J.
|publication year=1951
|special status=
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|genus=Thelypteris
|subgenus=Thelypteris subg. Goniopteris
|species=Thelypteris sclerophylla
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