View source for Pellaea ovata

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|accepted_name=Pellaea ovata
|accepted_authority=(Desvaux) Weatherby
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Contr. Gray Herb.
|place=114: 34. 1936 Pteris ovata Desvaux, Mém. Soc. Lin. 1827
|year=1827
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|common_names=Pellaea flexuosa (Kaulfuss ex Schlechtendal & Chamisso) Link
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|hierarchy=Pteridaceae;Pellaea;Pellaea ovata
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Pteridaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Pellaea]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Pellaea ovata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>creeping, horizontal, slender, 2–5 mm diam.; scales mostly bicolored, lanceolate, largest scales 0.3–0.8 mm wide, centers black, thick, margins brown, thin, erose-dentate. <b>Leaves</b> monomorphic, clustered or scattered along stem, 15–100 cm; croziers pubescent, bearing a few scales. <b>Petiole</b> straw-colored, tan, or gray, not lustrous, rounded or slightly flattened adaxially, without prominent articulation lines. <b>Blade</b> elongate-deltate, usually 3-pinnate proximally, 5–25 cm wide; rachis tan throughout, strongly flexuous, rounded or flattened adaxially, usually glabrous. <b>Pinnae</b> retrorse, projecting downward toward base of leaf, not decurrent on rachis, with 5–40 ultimate segments; costae strongly flexuous, 25–120 mm, longer than ultimate segments. <b>Ultimate</b> segments lanceolate-deltate, 5–20 mm, leathery, glabrous or sparsely pubescent; margins recurved on fertile segments, covering less than 1/2 abaxial surface, borders whitish, entire; apex obtuse to truncate. <b>Veins</b> of ultimate segments obscure. <b>Sporangia</b> short-stalked, containing 64 spores, not intermixed with farina-producing glands. <b>2n</b> = 58.</span><!--

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|phenology=Sporulating summer–fall.
|habitat=Rocky slopes and ledges, leaves often supported by associated vegetation, on a variety of substrates including granite and limestone
|elevation=300–1700 m
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico;West Indies in Hispaniola;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p>Populations of Pellaea ovata in the flora are composed of sexual diploids; an apogamous triploid cytotype predominates south of the United States. I have not seen herbarium specimens to substantiate reports of P. ovata from New Mexico (D. B. Lellinger 1985).</p>
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name=Pellaea ovata
|author=
|authority=(Desvaux) Weatherby
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
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|basionyms=
|family=Pteridaceae
|phenology=Sporulating summer–fall.
|habitat=Rocky slopes and ledges, leaves often supported by associated vegetation, on a variety of substrates including granite and limestone
|elevation=300–1700 m
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico;West Indies in Hispaniola;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Contr. Gray Herb.
|publication year=1827
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|genus=Pellaea
|species=Pellaea ovata
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