Acrostichum aureum L.
publication ID |
https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e5078 |
persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/794D0699-753D-1B4C-A016-A933576575BD |
treatment provided by |
Biodiversity Data Journal by Pensoft (2015-12-27 21:51:47, last updated 2022-11-11 00:31:47) |
scientific name |
Acrostichum aureum L. |
status |
|
Acrostichum inaequale Willd, A. guineense Gaudich, Chrysodium inaequale (Willd.) Fée, C. vulgare Fée, C. aureum (L) Mett
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 11958 ; recordNumber: 4877; recordedBy: J.-F. Brunel; lifeStage: Adult; reproductiveCondition: Fertile; Taxon: nameAccordingToID: The Plant List; scientificName: Acrostichumaureum L.; kingdom: Plantae; phylum: Monilophyta; class: Polypodiidae; order: Polypodiales; family: Pteridaceae; genus: Acrostichum; specificEpithet: aureum; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: L.; Location: continent: Africa; country: Togo; stateProvince: Maritime; decimalLatitude: 6.2333333; decimalLongitude: 1.2227778; geodeticDatum: WGS 1984; Identification: identifiedBy: J.-F. Brunel; Record Level: institutionID: Herbarium togoense; collectionID: TOGO GoogleMaps
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 11960 ; recordNumber: 102; recordedBy: K. Akpagana; lifeStage: Adult; reproductiveCondition: Fertile; Taxon: nameAccordingToID: The Plant List; scientificName: Acrostichum aureum L.; kingdom: Plantae; phylum: Monilophyta; class: Polypodiidae; order: Polypodiales; family: Pteridaceae; genus: Acrostichum; specificEpithet: aureum; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: L.; Location: continent: Africa; country: Togo; stateProvince: Maritime; decimalLatitude: 6.2333333; decimalLongitude: 1.2227778; geodeticDatum: WGS 1984; Identification: identifiedBy: J.-F. Brunel; dateIdentified: /5/1983; Event: eventDate: /5/1983; Record Level: institutionID: Herbarium togoense; collectionID: TOGO GoogleMaps
Ecological interactions
Native status
Native
Conservation status
Least Concern
Distribution
Togo (Ecological Zone 5), USA, U.S. Virgin Isl., Costa Rica, Galapagos, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Cuba, Nicaragua, Barbados, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Trinidad, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Lucia, Grenada, Barbados, Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana, Cayman Isl., Bahamas, Turks & Caicos Isl., Isla del Coco, Australia, South Africa, Zambia, Mozambique, SE-Zimbabwe, Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Pemba Isl., Principe Isl., Sao Tomé, Bioko Isl., Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Angola, Madagascar, Mauritius, La Réunion, Micronesia, Palau Isl., Fiji, Western Samoa, American Samoa, Marianas, Society Isl., Tonga, New Caledonia, Niue, Austral Isl., China, Taiwan, Ryukyu Isl., peninsular Malaysia, India, Andaman Isl., Nicobar Isl., Philippines, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Sulawesi
Notes
Acrostichum aureum is a fern with erect rhizome and fronds in clumps. Young fronds are entire while adults are pinnate, measuring 1 to over 2m in length. The petiole is 30-50 cm long, rigid and naked. The leaf blade is oblong-lanceolate, about 50 cm to 2 m long, with lanceolate pinnae. The pinnae are 20-30 cm long for 3-5 cm wide, alternate, spaced about 3 cm, with cuneate-oblique base. The upper pinnae are sessile while basal pinnae are stalked (Fig. 4a). Fertile pinnae are slightly narrower and completely covered by sporangia on their underside (Fig. 4b). This fern grows in the backward of mangroves, forming almost impenetrable bushes.
No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.
Kingdom |
|
Phylum |
|
Class |
|
Order |
|
Family |
|
Genus |