194.100 Athyrium Roth

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Description of the genus

Terrestrial or epilithic ferns. Rhizome creeping or suberect to erect. Fronds monomorphic. Stipe and rhachis adaxially sulcate. Lamina pinnately compound, mostly glabrous; veins free, pinnately branched, ending short of the margin. Sori linear, borne medially along the veins or just past a fork; indusium linear to reniform, attached almost along its entire lenght, often with long marginal outgrowths.

Derivation of name: athuréin: alluding to the variable shape of the sori

Worldwide: Near cosmopolitan genus, mostly distributed through the north temperate regions, ± 180 species.

Caprivi: 3 cultivated taxa.

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Species	Content
lewalleanum Pic.Serm.	Description
newtonii Baker	Description, Image
schimperi Moug. ex Fée	Description, Image

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