Friday, 23 July 2010

lowland forest - clinton's wood fern


Clinton's Woodfern

Order: Polypodiales
Family: Dryopteridaceae
Genus: Dryopteris Adans.
Species: D. clintoniana

Characteristics:
grow in a asymmetric clump. Large, leathern, bluish-green with leaflets that ascend up the stem in a ladder-like formation. Leaflets are deeply lobed. Fruit dots are along the back of the fertile subleaflets and are near the mid-vein.

Adaptations:

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