Anemia adiantifolia

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Family Anemiaceae

Plants terrestrial or on rock. Stems compact or short-creeping, horizontal, solenostelic (having phloem on both sides of xylem) or dictyostelic (having complex nets of xylem), clothed with orange to reddish brown hairs . Leaves erect [rarely forming a flat rosette], partially to entirely dimorphic . Sporangia in 2 rows on ultimate segments of fertile pinnae, sessile, oblong ; annulus apical. Spores tetrahedral-globose, with parallel or rarely anastomosing ridges . Gametophytes terrestrial, green, cordate with unequal lobes .

Genera 2, species 119 (1 genus, 3 species in the flora ) : widespread in tropical and subtropical regions.[1]

Genus Anemia

Stems short-creeping, horizontal, clothed with dark hairs . Leaves partially dimorphic with sporangia restricted to erect , dissected , most proximal pair of pinnae arising from petiole just below sterile part of blade or leaves fully dimorphic and blade tissue lacking on fertile leaves. Blade 1--3-pinnate, papery to leathery. Veins free [anastomosing]. x = 38.

Species 117: tropical and subtropical regions, North America, Mexico, West Indies, Central America, South America, 1 in Asia in s India, 10 in Africa.

Anemias are most abundant in Brazil (ca. 70 spp. ) and have a secondary center of diversity in Mexico (20 spp.). They are limited in the flora to peninsular Florida and the Edwards Plateau , Texas. All 3 species belong to the calciphilic subgenus Anemiorrhiza.[2]

Physical Description

Habitat

Terrestrial on open to lightly shaded, rocky slopes and in hammocks and pine woods , often on limestone; 0--30 m [3].

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,382 meters (0 to 7,815 feet).[4]

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Draba eurycarpa A. Gray • Ornithopteris adiantifolia (L.) Bernh. • Osmunda adiantifolia Linnaeus • Parrya eurycarpa (Gray) Jepson • Phoenicaulis eurycarpa (Gray) Abrams

Notes

Publishing author : Sw. Publication : Syn. Fil. (Swartz) 157. 1806; HB. 434. Prantl, Schiz. 126. Chr. 349. NPfl. 371 1806

Basionym author: (L.)

Similar Species

Members of the genus Anemia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 7 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

A. adiantifolia (Pine Fern) · A. cicutaria (Hemlock Fern) · A. hirsuta (Hairy Flowering Fern) · A. hirta (Streambank Flowering Fern) · A. mexicana (Mexican Fern) · A. portoricensis (Puerto Rico Flowering Fern) · A. wrightii (Parsley Fern)

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• An annotated catalogue of types of the University of Illinois mycological collections (ILL) / Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1997. url p. 102, p. 220, p. 259.
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Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 16, 2007:

• Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad, Herbario del Instituto de Ecología, A.C., México
• Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Virtual Herbarium Darwin Core format
• GBIF-Spain, CUBA: Herbario de la Academia de Ciencias, La Habana, Cuba: HAC-Pteridophyta
• GBIF-Spain, CUBA:Herbario del Jardín Botánico Nacional, La Habana, Cuba: HAJB-Pteridophyta
• Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
• , Biodiversidad de Costa Rica
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2644998
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-17975
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13728981
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17020080-1
• GRIN Nomen Number: 312253
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 17975
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 1031990-1
• MoBot NameID: 26604083
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PPSCH01010
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: ANAD
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 21281

Footnotes

1. John T. Mickel "Anemiaceae". in Flora of North America Vol. 2. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. John T. Mickel "Anemia". in Flora of North America Vol. 2. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
3. "Anemia adiantifolia". in Flora of North America Vol. 2. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
4. Mean = -79.630 meters (-261.253 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,055.010 based on 202 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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