Athyrium

Roth

Tent. Fl. Germ. 3(1,1): 31, 58. 1799.

Common names: Lady fern
Etymology: Greek athyros, doorless the sporangia only tardily push back the outer edge of the indusium
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Plants generally terrestrial. Stems short-creeping or ascending, stolons absent. Leaves monomorphic, usually dying back in winter. Petiole ± 0.5 times length of blade or less, base swollen and dentate, persisting as trophopod over winter or not; vascular bundles 2, lateral, lunate in cross section. Blade lanceolate to elliptic or oblanceolate, 1–3-pinnate-pinnatifid, gradually reduced distally to confluent, pinnatifid apex, herbaceous. Pinnae not articulate to rachis, segment margins serrulate or crenate; proximal pinnae often reduced, sessile to short-petiolulate, ± equilateral; costae adaxially grooved, grooves continuous from rachis to costae to costules; indument absent or of linear to lanceolate scales or 1-celled glands abaxially. Veins free, simple or forked. Sori in 1 row between midrib and margin, round to elongate, straight or hooked at distal end, or horseshoe-shaped; indusia shaped like sori, persistent, attached laterally or with narrow sinus, or indusia absent. Spores brownish, rugose. x = 40.

Discussion

In species outside the flora stems are sometimes long-creeping to erect, with leaves radially or dorsiventrally arranged.

Species about 180 (2 in the flora).

Key

1 Sori round, submarginal; indusia much reduced or usually absent. Athyrium distentifolium var. americanum
1 Sori elongate or hooked, medial; indusia well developed. Athyrium filix-femina