Golden Polypody
Phlebodium aureum
Summary 7
Phlebodium aureum (golden polypody, golden serpent fern, cabbage palm fern, gold-foot fern, hare-foot fern;syn. Polypodium aureum, Polypodium leucatomos) is an epiphytic fern native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas. It is confined to the eastern side of the continents, extending north into the United States to Florida and the extreme southeast of Georgia, and south through the Caribbean (the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, and Lesser Antilles), and northern and eastern South America to Paraguay. It...
Description 8
Rhizome creeping, up to 3 cm in diameter; rhizome scales dense, golden brown, up to 2 cm long. Fronds up to 1.3 m long, glabrous, herbaceous. Stipe up to 50 cm long, glabrous with a few scales near the base. Lamina deeply pinnatifid into 8-16 (up to 35) pairs of pinna with a terminal segment, bright green or glacous. Lobes lanceolate to elliptic to linear in outline, apex pointed, venation reticulate, forming distinctive polygonal areoles, margins entire. Sori round, c. 2 mm in diameter, in 2 rows on each side of the costae, situated at the junction of 2 included veinlets, exindusiate.
Sources and Credits
- (c) Homer Edward Price, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://www.flickr.com/photos/28340342@N08/5643632449
- (c) Mary Keim, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7234/7290024596_2c8d5e0a61_o.jpg
- (c) Mary Keim, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8076/8328124276_5036d6b2d9_o.jpg
- (c) Homer Edward Price, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3016/2925693234_8d69ec0579_o.gif
- (c) Homer Edward Price, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3028/2925692870_704a4dd9ef_o.gif
- (c) Forest & Kim Starr, some rights reserved (CC BY), https://www.biolib.cz/IMG/GAL/51272.jpg
- (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlebodium_aureum
- (c) Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/30274170
More Info
- iNat taxon page
- African Plants - a photo guide
- Atlas of Florida Plants
- Atlas of Living Australia
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
- BOLD Systems BIN search
- Catalogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia
- eFloras.org
- Flora Digital de Portugal
- Flora of North America (beta)
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
- HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
- IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
- NatureServe Explorer 2.0
- New Zealand Plant Conservation Network
- Plants of the World Online
- SEINet Symbiota portals
- Tropicos
- USDA PLANTS database
- World Flora Online
