Accession Data:
Lygodium japonicum Swartz.
- Common Name:
- Family: Lygodiaceae
- Country of Origin: Japan, to the Himalayas, to Northern Australia
- Description: Fern with climbing, twining fronds of indeterminate growth, to 30 m (90 ft) long; main rachis wiry, stemlike. Leafy branches off main rachis (constituting the pinnae) compound, triangular in overall outline, 10-20 cm (4-8 in) long and about as wide. Leaflets (pinnules) lobed, stalked, with terminal lobes often dissected (pinnatifid), basal lobes irregularly lobed or dissected; leaf-blade tissue pubescent below with short, curved hairs. Fertile leaflets contracted in shape, with two rows of sporangia along the leaf margin, which is enrolled to partially cover the sporangia.ked and petiole or axis; also applied to how the lateral veins are arranged in relation to the main vein.">pinnate, margins serrate.
- Culture: warm temperate to tropical areas, listed as invasive species in the Southern United States, where it is having a significant negative impact upon native flora.
- USDA Zone: 8a-11
Accession Data:
- Accession # 199900060
- Source: Deb Wiley - Virginia Tech
- Accession Date: 06-08-1999
- Bench: 1117 - AFR:South Tanks E
- Currently: active - healthy
- Qty: 1 confirmed on 03-13-2025
- Restrictions:
- Potentially Invasive Plant - Plants are not to leave Greenhouse!
- Potentially Invasive Plant - Plants are not to leave Greenhouse!
Classification:
- Division: Ferns
- Class: Polypodiopsida
- SubClass: Polypodiidae
- Order: Schizaeales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Lygodiaceae
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Flowering Data:
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References (internal):
- EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: China South-Central / Hainan / Inner Mongolia / Manchuria / China North-Central / Qinghai / China Southeast / Tibet / Japan / Korea / East Himalaya / India / Nepal / Sri Lanka / Cambodia / Laos / Thailand / Vietnam / Borneo / Cocos (Keeling) Is. / Jawa / Lesser Sunda Is. / Maluku / Malaya / Philippines / Sulawesi / Sumatera / Christmas I. / New Guinea
References (external):
- Hortus Third, LH Bailey Hortorium, 1976
- Botanica, Turner & Wasson, 1997, CD-ROM Version
- Cal's Plant of the Week
- Identification and Biology of Non-Native Plants in Florida's Natural Areas, Editors : K.A. Langeland and K. Craddock Burks, Florida Exotic Plant Pest Council
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Monday, September 04, 2017.
- Lygodium japonicum at ARS-GRIN. Last accessed on Monday, September 04, 2017.
data regenerated on Thu, 13 Mar 2025 15:39:01 -0400 [bcm v4.0]
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