Japanese Netvein Hollyfern
Cyrtomium falcatum
Characteristics
- Fronds - Singly pinnate on stems growing outward from a central rooting point.
- Leaves - Leaflets loosly spaced with a short petiole connection to the rachis.
- Rachis - Grooved with thin brown scales.
- Spores - Randomly spaced circular indusia open showing the individual spores.
Vertical Bluff environment.
Spreading group with each frond eminating from the root system.
Leaflet pattern with leaflet at the growing tip. Note the lobes of the growing tip leaflet and the scaley, groved stem (rachis).
Sporangia with open indusia showing the individual spores.
Stem (rachis) with scales and a short leaflet petiole.
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