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PENTAGRAMMA GOLDBACK or SILVERBACK FERN
Plant in soil or rock crevices; rhizome short-creeping- decumbent, generally 3–5(8) mm wide, scales lance- linear, mid-stripe dark.
Leaf: stipe 5–20(32) cm, 0.5–2(3) mm wide; blade generally 2–3- pinnate, 2–8(15) cm, triangular or generally 5-sided, with white or yellow exudate abaxially, with exudate or not adaxially, main axis shallowly to deeply grooved adaxially; lowermost pinnae more strongly developed on basal side; veins free.
Sporangia: along veins ± throughout; segment margins unmodified, recurved or not.
2 species: w North America. (Greek: 5 lines, for leaf blades) A puzzling complex of intergrading chemical, chromosomal, and morphological variants (see Yatskievych et al. 1990 Amer Fern J 80:9–17). {hort link}

Key to Pentagramma

1. Stipe dark brown to generally ± black; leaf blade adaxially with white exudate; SN, SCoRI ..... P. pallida

1' Stipe brown to red-brown; leaf blade adaxially generally without exudate; CA-FP, GB, DMtns ..... P. triangularis

2. Lf blade adaxially not sticky, generally glabrous ..... subsp. triangularis

2' Lf blade adaxially sticky or ± not, ± densely or sparsely glandular

3. Lf blade adaxially ± not sticky, generally sparsely glandular; pinnules on basal side of lowermost pinnae deeply pinnately lobed to ± 1-pinnate ..... subsp. maxonii

3' Lf blade adaxially generally sticky, ± densely glandular; pinnules on basal side of lowermost pinnae ± entire to shallowly pinnately lobed ..... subsp. viscosa

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