Common Name: CLIFF FERN FAMILY Habit: Perennial herb in rock crevices, occasionally in soil; rhizome generally short-creeping. Leaf: short-spaced, 5--40 cm, +- alike; stipe firm or fleshy (easily crushed), base darker or not, with 2 vascular strands; blade 1-pinnate to 2-pinnate-pinnately lobed, herbaceous, generally with hairs, hair-like scales, or gland-tipped hairs on axes, veins free, terminating before leaf margin; rachis, costa generally grooved adaxially. Sporangia: sori round; indusia of many segmented hair- or scale-like fragments or lobes encircling sorus from below [sphere-like]. Genera In Family: 1 genus, +- 35 species: worldwide, generally temperate. All species often treated in Woodsia (Shao et al. 2015 PLoS ONE 10; Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group 2016 J Syst Evol in press); four to six segregate genera could be recognized (Schmakov 2015 Turczaninowia 18:11--16). Note: A relatively isolated family within the broad eupolypods II clade (suborder Aspleniineae; Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group 2016 J Syst Evol in press), only distantly related to Cystopteridaceae or Athyriaceae, both often included here (Smith et al. 2016 Taxon 55:705--731). eFlora Treatment Author: Carl J. Rothfels & Alan R. Smith Scientific Editor: Bruce G. Baldwin & Thomas J. Rosatti.
Common Name: CLIFF FERN Habit: Rhizome generally ascending to suberect, short, old stipe bases many. Leaf: often glandular or hairy; stipe base ×-section with 2 vascular strands; blade 1--2-pinnate, segments +- toothed to pinnately lobed, veins free, ending just short of margin. Sporangia: sori round, generally not at margins; indusium cup-like, often of many segmented hair- or scale-like fragments or lobes encircling sorus from below [sphere-like], often of crusty, +- white beads, often obscure in age. Species In Genus: +- 30 species: generally northern temperate. Etymology: (J. Woods, Britain, b. 1776) eFlora Treatment Author: John C. Game, Alan R. Smith and Thomas Lemieux Reference: Windham 1993 FNANM 2:270--280 Unabridged Reference: Brown 1964 Beih Nova Hedwigia 16:1--154
Woodsia plummerae Lemmon
NATIVE Leaf: < 25 cm, < 4 cm wide, tip often blunt, sometimes forked; hairs on abaxial leaf axes +- 0.1 mm, cylindric, non-segmented, glandular; pinnae < 3 cm, < 1.5 cm wide, pinnately lobed to 1-pinnate, margin toothed to shallowly lobed. Sporangia: indusium of scale-like fragments or lobes ending in hairs or not. Chromosomes: 2n=152. Ecology: Crevices, rock bases; Elevation: 1600--2000 m. Bioregional Distribution: DMtns; Distribution Outside California: to Texas, northern Mexico. Unabridged Note: San Diego Co. citation by Brown a mislabeled specimen of an Orcutt collection at Field Museum of Natural History. Jepson eFlora Author: John C. Game, Alan R. Smith and Thomas Lemieux Reference: Windham 1993 FNANM 2:270--280 Unabridged Reference: Brown 1964 Beih Nova Hedwigia 16:1--154 Jepson Online Interchange Listed on CNPS Rare Plant Inventory Previous taxon: Woodsia oregana Next taxon: Woodsia scopulina
Botanical illustration including Woodsia plummerae
Citation for this treatment: John C. Game, Alan R. Smith and Thomas Lemieux 2012, Woodsia plummerae, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=48615, accessed on July 18, 2019.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2019, Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on July 18, 2019.
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