| Polystichum lonchitis (L.) Roth | |||
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| Family | Aspidiaceae — APG family: Dryopteridaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Polypodium lonchitis L., Dryopteris lonchitis (Retz.) Ktze., Aspidium lonchitis Sw. | ||
| Description | Rhizome stout, ascending, covered with old stipe bases, terminating in crown of new fronds; stipes short, chaffy, with lustrous red-brown to castaneous scales; frond rigid, coriaceous, evergreen, dark green, with spreading teeth; sori in 2 single or double rows, later becoming confluent mostly on upper part; indusia large, more or less toothed. | ||
| Ecology | Rocks and rocky slopes, mostly on calcareous soil. Described from Switzerland and “Virginicus.” |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.