EcoFlora - Acrostichum

Acrostichum
Family: Pteridaceae	FNA Resources Robert M. Lloyd in Flora of North America (vol. 2) Plants terrestrial in fresh- or saltwater habitats. Stems erect or creeping, branched; scales dark brown, concolored, linear-lanceolate, margins entire. Leaves slightly dimorphic, clustered, 1--5 m. Petiole brown, with a single groove adaxially, glabrous, smooth or with scale scars, with several abaxial vascular bundles and 2 adaxial vascular bundles. Blade lanceolate, pinnate, leathery, abaxially glabrous or hispid, adaxially dull, not striate, glabrous; rachis straight. Pinnae stalked, free from rachis, narrowly oblong to lanceolate, 2--5 cm wide; base cuneate; stalk green; margins plane; fertile leaves bearing sporangia on most pinnae or on only more distal pinnae (fertile pinnae may be slightly smaller than sterile ones). Veins of pinnae conspicuous, strongly anastomosing. False indusia absent. Sporangia spread over abaxial surface, mixed with paraphyses (sori acrostichoid), containing 64 spores. Spores yellow, tetrahedral, minutely tuberculate or roughened, equatorial flange absent. x = 30.
Species within checklist: Flora of Philadelphia Acrostichum alienum Map not Available Acrostichum apodum Map not Available Acrostichum aureum Map not Available Acrostichum caudatum Map not Available Acrostichum conforme Map not Available Acrostichum crispatulum Map not Available Acrostichum danaeifolium Map not Available Acrostichum excelsum Map not Available Acrostichum gorgoneum Map not Available Acrostichum hybridum Map not Available Acrostichum lanceolatum Map not Available Acrostichum latifolium Map not Available Acrostichum lomarioides Map not Available Acrostichum marginatum Map not Available Acrostichum nicotianifolium Map not Available Acrostichum pallidum Map not Available Acrostichum peltatum Map not Available Acrostichum pilosum Map not Available Acrostichum polyphyllum Map not Available Acrostichum proliferum Map not Available Acrostichum punctulatum Map not Available Acrostichum scandens Map not Available Acrostichum scolopendrifolium Map not Available Acrostichum sorbifolium Map not Available Acrostichum speciosum Map not Available Acrostichum squamosum Map not Available Acrostichum tenuifolium Images not available Map not Available Acrostichum venustum Map not Available Acrostichum vestitum Map not Available Acrostichum virens Map not Available Acrostichum viscosum Map not Available