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Attribution By Peter de Lange
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What

Brown's Sword Fern (Nephrolepis brownii)

Observer

pjd1

Date

May 2009

Description

Locally common terrestrial fern on Raoul Island (but also extending to Dayrell Island (Herald Islets), and in the southern Kermadec Islands, Macauley Island.Plants rhizomatous, rhizomes short-creeping to erect, producing numerous stolons. Stipes and rachises pale brown, brittle. Frond lamina ellliptic to narrowly elliptic, pinnate, dark green. Pinnae 40 or more pairs, bearing pale brown scales with fringed margins on lower surface, slightly falcate, tapering to an acute apex, margins irregularly toothed.

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