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Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Pseudophegopteris aurita (Hook.) Ching, Acta Phytotax. Sin. 8: 314 (1963)
Synonymy:
- ≡ Gymnogramma aurita Hook., Icon. Pl. 10, t. 974 (1854)
- ≡ Phegopteris aurita (Hook.) J.Sm., Cult. Ferns 17 (1857)
- ≡ Polypodium auritum (Hook.) E.J.Lowe., Ferns 2, t. 51 (1858)
- ≡ Leptogramma aurita (Hook.) Bedd., Handb. Ferns Brit. India 377 (1883)
- ≡ Aspidium auritum (Hook.) Christ, Bull. Herb. Boissier sér. 2, 4: 616 (1904)
- ≡ Dryopteris aurita (Hook.) C.Chr., Index Filic. 253 (1905)
- ≡ Nephrodium auritum (Hook.) Hand.-Mazz., Symb. Sin. 6, 21 (1929)
- ≡ Thelypteris aurita (Hook.) Ching, Bull. Fan Mem. Inst. Biol. 6: 266 (1936)
Syntypes: N.E. India, Meghalaya, Khasia, W. Griffith s.n., Herb. Hooker., K 000951395, 000951397, 000951398 (!online); T. Lobb s.n., Herb. Hooker., K 000951396 (!online)
Etymology:
Recognition
In New Zealand Pseudophegopteris aurita is recognised by its long-creeping rhizome bearing ciliate scales, red-brown stipes and rachises, deeply 1-pinnate-pinnatifid laminae, the basal pair of pinnae shorter than those above, and the basal pair of pinnules on the proximal primary pinnae, especially the basiscopic ones, clearly longer than the adjacent pinnules. The rachis and costae bear short hairs, especially adaxially, but the laminae are otherwise glabrous. The veins are free, ending in hydathodes just before the margin. The sori are oblong and exindusiate, and the sporangia bear hairs on the stalk below the annulus.
Distribution
North Island: Northland.
Altitudinal range: c. 10 m.
Pseudophegopteris aurita has been recorded spreading from a cultivated plant in a garden at Kerikeri. The cultivated plant was grown by a commercial fern nursery.
Occurs naturally in Bhutan, north-east India, Nepal, China, Japan, and south-east Asia as far as Papua New Guinea (Fraser-Jenkins et al. 2017).
Habitat
Recorded as a cultivation escape, growing on a south-facing slope 40 m from the parent plant.
Biostatus
Exotic
First Record
Ogle et al. (2021). AK 327895, 2008.
Notes
Pseudophegopteris aurita is distinguished from its congeners by its creeping rhizome with well-spaced fronds, red-brown stipes and rachises, deeply 1-pinnate-pinnatifid laminae, elongated basal basiscopic pinnules on the primary pinnae, stiff hairs on the lamina axes, and elongate sori.
Bibliography
Beddome, R.H. 1883: Handbook to the ferns of British India. Thacker, Spink & Co., Calcutta.
Brownsey, P.J.; Perrie, L.R. 2022: Thelypteridaceae. Edition 2. In: Glenny, D. (ed.) Flora of New Zealand - Ferns and Lycophytes. Fascicle 16. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.
Ching, R.C. 1936: A revision of the Chinese and Sikkim-Himalayan Dryopteris with reference to some species from neighbouring regions. Bulletin of the Fan Memorial Institute of Biology 6: 237–352.
Ching, R.C. 1963: A reclassification of the family Thelypteridaceae from the mainland of Asia. Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica 8: 289–335.
Christ, H. 1904: Filices Faurieanae. V. Filices Formosanae. Bulletin de l'Herbier Boissier, série 2, 4: 609–618.
Christensen, C. 1905–1906: Index Filicum. Hagerup, Copenhagen.
Fraser-Jenkins, C.R.; Gandhi, K.N.; Kholia, B.S.; Benniamin, A. 2017: An annotated checklist of Indian Pteridophytes. Part 1. Lycopodiaceae to Thelypteridaceae. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, Dehra Dun, India.
Handel-Mazzetti, H.F. von 1929: Pteridophyta. Symbolae Sinicae. Part VI. Julius Springer, Vienna.
Hooker, W.J. 1854: Icones Plantarum. Vol. 10. Pamplin, London.
Lowe, E.J. 1858: Ferns: British and exotic. Vol. 2. Groombridge & Sons, London.
Ogle, C.C.; de Lange, P.J.; Cameron, E.K.; Parris, B.S.; Champion, P.D. 2021: Checklist of dicotyledons, gymnosperms and pteridophytes naturalised or casual in New Zealand: additional records 2007–2019. Perspectives in Biosecurity Research Series 5: 45–116.
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