Biology:Woodsia plummerae

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Short description: Species of fern

Woodsia plummerae
Woodsia plummerae - Flickr - aspidoscelis.jpg

Secure (NatureServe)
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Suborder: Aspleniineae
Family: Woodsiaceae
Genus: Woodsia
Species:
W. plummerae
Binomial name
Woodsia plummerae
Lemmon

Woodsia plummerae is a species of fern known by the common name Plummer's cliff fern. It is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, where it grows in rocky habitat in deserts and other areas.[1] It has leaves up to 25 centimeters long with flexible reddish or purplish rachises covered in glandular hairs. The blade is made up of several pairs of leaflets which are subdivided into multilobed or toothed small segments.[2][3]

The species is named in honor of American botanist Sarah Plummer Lemmon.[4]

References

  1. Flora of North America
  2. Jepson Manual Treatment
  3. USDA Plants Profile
  4. Lemmon, John Gill. Botanical Gazette 7(1): 6–7. 1882.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q8033301 entry