EcoFlora - Lygodium

Lygodium
Family: Lygodiaceae Scott Namestnik	FNA Gleason & Cronquist Resources Clifton E. Nauman in Flora of North America (vol. 2) Plants terrestrial. Stems branched, slender. Leaves often more than several meters, 2-pinnate or more divided, climbing by means of twining rachis; fertile pinnae borne toward apex of fertile leaves. Blades of short, alternate primary pinnae. Pinnules ± entire to palmately or pinnately lobed; fertile and sterile pinnae similar or fertile pinnae greatly contracted. Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada Rhizome creeping, slender, dichotomously branched; lvs distichous, remote, sympodially developed, one branch of each dichotomy elongate, the other short and bearing 2 terminal palmately lobed lfls, the whole lf thus resembling a stem with lvs; sterile pinnae basal, the fertile apical, with reduced lf-tissue; sporangia each borne on a short vein, covered by a membranous indusium-like outgrowth from the lf-surface, short-stalked, strongly curved, the annulus appearing lateral; spores tetrahedral; gametophyte thalloid. 3, warm reg. Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp. ©The New York Botanical Garden. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Species within inventory project: Arizona Flora Lygodium articulatum Map not Available Lygodium auriculatum Map not Available Lygodium borneense Map not Available Lygodium circinatum Map not Available Lygodium circinnatum Map not Available Lygodium cubense Map not Available Lygodium dichotomum Map not Available Lygodium digitatum Map not Available Lygodium dimorphum Map not Available Lygodium flexuosum Map not Available Lygodium hastatum Map not Available Lygodium heterodoxum Map not Available Lygodium hians Map not Available Lygodium japonicum Map not Available Lygodium kerstenii $Media resource of Lygodium kerstenii$ Map not Available Lygodium lanceolatum Map not Available Lygodium longifolium Map not Available Lygodium merrillii Map not Available Lygodium mexicanum Map not Available Lygodium microphyllum Map not Available Lygodium oligostachyum Map not Available Lygodium palmatum Map not Available Lygodium pinnatifidum Map not Available Lygodium polystachyum Map not Available Lygodium radiatum Map not Available Lygodium reticulatum Map not Available Lygodium salicifolium Map not Available Lygodium scandens Map not Available Lygodium smithianum $Media resource of Lygodium smithianum$ Map not Available Lygodium trifurcatum Map not Available Lygodium venustum Map not Available Lygodium versteegii Map not Available Lygodium volubile Map not Available Lygodium yunnanense Map not Available