Sadleria Kaulf., Enum. Filic.
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.275.3.1 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0D7187AA-7D66-FF97-AF83-FA6F4B6CF87F |
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Felipe |
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Sadleria Kaulf., Enum. Filic. |
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Sadleria Kaulf., Enum. Filic. View in CoL 161. 1824. — Type: Sadleria cyatheoides Kaulf., Enum. Filic. 161. 1824. Figs. 4H View FIGURE 4 , 7E View FIGURE 7 .
Plants terrestrial, epipetric in Sadleria squarrosa ; rhizomes erect, subarborescent, non-stoloniferous, stout, bearing brown, linear-acuminate or lanceolate scales, these entire or minutely toothed or ciliolate at the margins; fronds monomorphic; stipes stout, long, stramineous or darkened, with filiform brown scales proximally, glabrous or glabrescent distally; blades concolorous, lanceolate to elliptic, pinnate-pinnatifid or bipinnate, apices pinnatifid; rachises scaly, sometimes with glandular hairs, glabrous or glabrescent; buds absent; aerophores absent; pinnae sessile or short-stipitate, with segments falcate to obtuse, subentire to crenate; veins furcate near the costa, uniting to form a pericostal arch, ending in hydathodes; sori linear, continuous over vein arches, indusia continuous or not, sometimes glandular; x = 33.
Species number, comments, and distribution:— About six species, endemic to Hawaii. The trunk-like rhizomes, pinnate-pinnatifid or bipinnate blades, and brown, linear-acuminate or lanceolate rhizome scales are typically present in species of this genus. It is closely related to Cleistoblechnum and Blechnopsis (Gasper et al. in press).
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