Odontosoria clavata

• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Genus Odontosoria

Plants terrestrial or on rock, not forming colonies. Stems creeping on substrate surface, mostly short; hairs brown, jointed (grading into long, narrow scales with uniseriate tip ), not clathrate. Leaves closely spaced to quite distant , erect to arching , narrowly oblong [triangular, ovate , to irregularly shaped], 10--50 cm [to 6 m ]. Petiole glabrous or with a few basal scales , stem buds absent, vascular bundles 1. Blade 3--4-pinnate [2--5-pinnate, sometimes scandent or climbing ], ± glabrous [some species with spines on petiole, midrib , or costae]; rachises without prickles; nectaries absent. Segments nearly dichotomously divided ; ultimate segments linear to cuneate, margins entire or bifid. Veins free , simple or forked . Sori terminal near blade margin on single vein or on commissure joining 2--8 veins, ± spheric to transversely elongate , indusia attached at base and sides, opening toward margin. Spores tetrahedral to nearly globose , or oblong, trilete or monolete, smooth or granulate . x = 38, 47.

Species 22: mostly tropical .[1]

Physical Description

Habitat

Calcareous soil, sinks and pinelands; 0 m [2].

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Adiantum clavatum Linnaeus • Sphenomeris chinensis (L.) Maxon • Sphenomeris chusiana (L.) Copeland • Sphenomeris clavata (Linnaeus) Maxon • Stenoloma clavatum (Linnaeus) Fée

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Similar Species

Members of the genus Odontosoria

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 4 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

O. aculeata (Thicket Creepingfern) · O. chinensis (Chinese Creepingfern) · O. clavata (Clubbed Creepingfern) · O. scandens (Border Creepingfern)

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Further Reading

• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 17 1913-1916 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 159.
• Dedication papers: scientific papers presented at the dedication of the laboratory building and plant houses, April 19-21, 1917. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1918. url p. 101.
• Ferns: British & foreign. The history, organography, classification, and enumeration of the species of garden ferns with a treatise on their cultivation, etc. etc. London, W. H. Allen & Co., Ltd., 1896. url .
• Ferns: British & foreign: the history, organography, classification, and enumeration of the species of garden ferns with a treatise on their cultivation, etc. etc. / by John Smith. London: D. Bogue, 1879. url p. 317.
• Flora of the southeastern United States; being descriptions of the seed-plants, ferns and fern-allies growing naturally in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, and in Oklahom by John Kunkel Small. New York, The author, 1913. url p. 23.
• Journal of the New York Botanical Garden. 28 1927 Lancaster, Pa.: Published for the Garden by the New Era Printing Co., 1900- url p. 29, p. 318, p. 51.
• Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. Washington [etc., Washington Academy of Sciences] url p. 143, p. 144.
• Memoirs / Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Brooklyn, N.Y.: The Garden, 1918-1936. url p. 101.
• Science. New York, N.Y.: [s.n.]1880- url p. 114.
• The Bahama Islands / edited by George Burbank Shattuck. New York: Macmillan, 1905. url , , p. 232, p. 249, p. 249, p. 620.
• The Bahama Islands, London, Macmillan & co., ltd., 1905. url p. 232, p. 249, p. 619, p. 620.
• The Bahama flora, New York, The Authors, 1920. url .
• The Bahama flora, by Nathaniel Lord Britton and Charles Frederick Millspaugh. New York, The authors, 1920. url p. 468, p. 468, p. 468, p. 468, p. 684, p. 684.
• The ferns (Filicales) treated comparatively with a view to their natural classification, by F. O. Bower. Cambridge [Eng.]University Press, 1923-28. url p. 29.
• Kramer, K. U. 1957. A revision of the genus Lindsaea in the New World with notes on allied genera. Acta Bot. Neerl. 6: 97--290.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 12, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 01, 2008:

• 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
• USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2663923
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-184045
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 184045
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 17342880
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PPDEN0A020
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: SPCL2
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 49945

Footnotes

1. Karl U. Kramer "Odontosoria". in Flora of North America Vol. 2. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. "Odontosoria clavata". in Flora of North America Vol. 2. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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