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Published In: Filicum Species 137. 1841. (Fil. Spec.) Name publication detail
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 9/21/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project data     (Last Modified On 7/19/2018)
Nomenclature:

1. Anogramma leptophylla (L.) Link, Fil. Sp. 137 (1841). Polypodium leptophyllum L., Sp. P1. 1092 (1753). Gymnogramma leptophylla (L.) Desv., Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin Mag. 5: 305 (1811); Boiss., Fl. Orient. 5: 721 (1884). Type: Described from SW. Europe, Herb. Linn. no. 1251.56 (LINN). [Plate 9]

Common name: Annual Maidenhair or Jersy fern; חשפונית עדינה.
Habitat: Shady and damp places, walls, rock fissures and cave openings. Coastal Galilee, Acco Plain, Carmel Coast, Sharon Plain, Philistean Plain, Upper and Lower Galilee, Mt. Carmel, Esdraelon Plain, Mt. Gilboa, Samaria, Judean Mts., Samarian and Judean Deserts, Hula Plain, Upper Jordan Valley, Golan, Gilead.
Area distribution:

Mediterranean, W. Euro-Siberian and Irano-Turanian; also in Australia, S. America, and elsewhere.


 

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Annual or biennial, usually lower than 10 cm; prothallium perennial. Rhizome very short, sparsely scaly when young. Leaves few, sparsely hairy, later glabrous, of two forms: the outer short, 3-7 cm, ovate to orbicular in outline, deeply pinnatisect or cut into fan-shaped, lobulate segments; others much longer, 5-20 cm, oblong-lanceolate in outline, 2-3-pinnatisect, segments obovate-cuneate, incised or pinnatifid; petiole as long as or longer than blade, slender, purplish. Sori scattered along the secondary veins, sometimes becoming confluent and occupying thr whole surface of segment. February-April.

 
 
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