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Accession Data:

Ophioglossum pendulum L.

  • Common Name:
  • Family: Ophioglossaceae C. Presl.

  • Country of Origin: Madagascar, tropical Asia, Australia

  • Description: Epiphytic herb, rarely terrestrial, evergreen. Rhizome shortly horizontal to creeping, 10-40 mm long, fleshy. Leaves 1-6, pendulous, simple or bifurcate; stipe 3-25 mm long, tapering gradually into the lamina; lamina linear, 0.2-2(-4) m long, 6-90 mm wide, apex acute to obtuse, sometimes furcate, base narrowly attenuate. Fertile spike 25-500 mm long, situated medially well above the base of the lamina, usually about 1/3-1/2-way up the leaf from the rhizome, pedicel 6-25 mm long, sporangial spike 15-450 mm long with 25-50 pairs of sporangia. Spores trilete (not examined). Chromosome number: n = ~480.2
  • Culture: Grow in epiphyte mix in a hanging basket

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 200600067
  • Source: Charles Alford
  • Accession Date: 06-12-2006
  • Bench: 3101 - EVO: Bryophytes & Lycopods
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 3 confirmed on 11-29-2024

Classification:

  • Division: Ferns
  • Class: Polypodiopsida
  • SubClass: Ophioglossidae
  • Order: Ophioglossales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Ophioglossaceae
  • SubFamily: Ophioglossoideae
  • Tribe:
  • SubTribe:

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
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2018
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2016
2015
2014
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2011

References (internal):

  • Ferns & Fern Allies
  • EEB 3203 - Developmental Plant Morphology

References (external):

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Tuesday, April 03, 2018.
  2. J.E. Burrows, M.Sc. & R.J. Johns, M.Sc., Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2001). Last accessed via JSTOR on Tuesday, April 03, 2018.
  3. Image #03 (original) by Xue Davis (Own work). Used with permission. Last accessed on Wednesday, October 10, 2018.

data regenerated on Fri, 29 Nov 2024 10:51:08 -0500 [bcm v4.0]

Images:

Ophioglossum pendulum

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Current Accessions in the Ophioglossaceae

Subfamily Ophioglossoideae

  • Ophioglossum pendulum
  • Ophioglossum petiolatum
W/C = Wild Collected
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