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Accession Data:

Pseudodrynaria coronans (Wall. ex Mett.) Ching

  • Common Name: Santa Rosa Fern
  • Family: Polypodiaceae Bercht. & J. Presl.

  • Country of Origin: Phillipines

  • Description: Epiphytic or lithophytic. Rhizome creeping, thick, 1.5–3 cm diam., densely scaly throughout; scales pseudopeltate, brown, linear, (5–)10–15(–20) by 0.5–1 mm, sharply toothed at margin. Fronds petiole or a stigma, when the style is absent.">sessile, 70–170 by 20–45(–60) cm, lobed almost to rachis, lobes continuing with wings less than 1 cm broad, the base of laminae broadly rounded to cordate, up to 15 cm broad, subentire or shallowly lobed, brown, like the nest leaves of Drynaria; lobes of the upper part of laminae ascending, usually more than a dozen pairs, linear-subtriangular, attenuately acuminate at apex, entire at margin, 15–40 by 1.5–5 cm, every lobe falling at the abscission along rachis; veins raised on both surfaces, venation drynarioid, or reticulate, main areoles quadrangular, smaller areoles with free included veinlets; coriaceous, green, glabrous. Sori one, or very rarely two, row(s) between main veins, more or less elongate, or sometimes uniting longitudinally, but rarely continuous beyond cross veins.2
  • Culture: Grown best in medium light and kept constantly damp.
  • USDA Zone: 10a-11

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 200900064
  • Source: Judy Becker - Lauray of Salisbury
  • Accession Date: 09-01-2009
  • Bench: 3106 - EVO: Ferns & Magnoliids
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 1 confirmed on 11-29-2024

Classification:

  • Division: Ferns
  • Class: Polypodiopsida
  • SubClass: Polypodiidae
  • Order: Polypodiales
  • SubOrder: Polypodiineae
  • Family: Polypodiaceae
  • SubFamily:
  • Tribe:
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References (internal):

  • Ferns & Fern Allies
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Cambodia / Laos / Thailand / Philippines

References (external):

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Tuesday, May 08, 2018.
  2. Aglaomorpha coronans at Ferns of Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. Last accessed on Tuesday, May 08, 2018.

data regenerated on Thu, 27 Mar 2025 11:45:13 -0400 [bcm v4.0]

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Current Accessions in the Polypodiaceae

  • Pseudodrynaria coronans

Subfamily Drynarioideae

  • Aglaomorpha meyeniana
  • Aglaomorpha speciosa
  • Drynaria bonii

Subfamily Microsoroideae

  • Colysis hemionitidea
  • Goniophlebium subauriculatum
  • Lecanopteris luzonensis
  • Lecanopteris sarcopus
  • Lemmaphyllum microphyllum
  • Lemmaphyllum microphyllum
  • Microsorum punctatum "Grandiceps"
  • Microsorum scandens
  • Microsorum sp.
  • Microsorum steerei
  • Microsorum unidentified
  • Neolepisorus ovatus

Subfamily Platycerioideae

  • Platycerium alcicorne W/C
  • Platycerium alcicorne W/C
  • Platycerium andinum
  • Platycerium bifurcatum
  • Platycerium coronarium
  • Platycerium grande
  • Platycerium madagascariense
  • Platycerium quadridichotomum
  • Platycerium stemaria
  • Platycerium veitchii
  • Pyrrosia lingua
  • Pyrrosia lingua 'Hiryu'
  • Pyrrosia polydactylis

Subfamily Polypodioideae

  • Polypodiodes formosana

Subfamily Polypodioideae
Tribe non-grammitid ferns

  • Campyloneurum phyllitidis
  • Microgramma lycopodioides
  • Microgramma nitida
  • Phlebodium aureum
  • Serpocaulon meniscifolium W/C
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