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Adiantum cunninghamii Hook.

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Adiantum cunninghamii Hook., Sp. Fil. 2, 52, t. 86a (1851)
Adiantum cunninghamii Hook.

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Hook.
Hook.
1851
52, t. 86a
ICN
Adiantum cunninghamii Hook.
species
Adiantum cunninghamii
Named in honour of Allan Cunningham (1791–1839), a plant collector for Kew, and colonial botanist in New South Wales.
Lectotype (selected by Brownsey & Perrie 2020): N[ew] Zealand, W. Colenso 1670, 1849, Herb. Hooker., K 001090075!

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cunninghamii

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Adiantum cunninghamii Hook.

Rhizome stout, far-creeping, clad in stiff linear-attenuate dark brown paleae, up to 8 mm. long; stipites distributed along rhizome. Stipes wiry, shining, dark purple to almost black, scabrid towards paleate base; 8-25-(40)cm. long. Rhachis wiry, blackish purple, flexuose, glab.; secondary rhachides sts ± pubescent. Lamina 15-30-(40) × 7-20- (25) cm., ovate to narrow deltoid, bi- to tri-pinnate below, pinnate above, firm, pale to rather dark green above, ± glaucous below, glab. Primary pinnae up to 12 × 5 cm., ovate to oblong; secondary up to 4 × 2 cm.; terminal pinna up to 20 cm. or more long. Pinnules dimidiate-oblong to dimidiate-rhomboid or rhomboid; fertile 10-25 × 5-12 mm.; sterile up to 30 × 15 mm., with often acute lobes; lower margin entire, straight to concave-convex; upper margin with alternately shallow and rather deep crenate lobes. Sporangia in sinuses of shallower lobes, up to 14 groups per pinnule, protected by orbicular- reniform to lunulate, ± crenulate to toothed reflexed margins 1·5-2 mm. diam.

Adiantum cunninghamii Hook.

Rhizomes far-creeping, scaly. Stipes and rachises glabrous except at very base. Laminae ovate or elliptic, 10-35 × 5-24 cm, (2)-3-pinnate. Primary pinnae alternate, (1)-2-4-(5) on each side of rachis bearing secondary pinnae, and a terminal portion with 10-12 undivided primary pinnae on each side. Ultimate pinnules ± oblong or parallelogrammoid, tending to curve acroscopically at the apices, 8-25 × 4-12 mm; stalk attached at proximal corner; upper and outer margins irregularly toothed, lower and inner margins entire; both surfaces glabrous, upper surface dark green, lower glaucous. Indusia ± reniform with prominent sinuses, glabrous, to 14 per pinnule on upper and outer margins.

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Adiantum cunninghamii Hook.
Adiantum cunninghamii Hook.
Adiantum cunninghamii Hook.
Adiantum cunninghamii Hook.
Adiantum cunninghamii Hook.
Adiantum cunninghamii Hook.
Adiantum cunninghamii Hook.
Adiantum cunninghamii Hook.
Adiantum cunninghamii Hook.
Adiantum cunninghamii Hook.
Adiantum cunninghamii Hook.
Adiantum cunninghamii Hook.
Adiantum cunninghamii Hook.
Adiantum cunninghamii Hook.
Adiantum cunninghamii Hook.
Adiantum cunninghamii Hook.
Adiantum cunninghamii Hook.
Adiantum cunninghamii Hook.

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Adiantum cunninghamii Hook.
New Zealand
Adiantum cunninghamii Hook.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Adiantum cunninghamii Hook.
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
Adiantum cunninghamii Hook.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Adiantum cunninghamii Hook.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Adiantum cunninghamii Hook.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Adiantum cunninghamii Hook.
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North Auckland Land District
Adiantum cunninghamii Hook.
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Otago Land District
Adiantum cunninghamii Hook.
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South Auckland Land District
Adiantum cunninghamii Hook.
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Southland Land District
Adiantum cunninghamii Hook.
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Adiantum cunninghamii Hook.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Adiantum cunninghamii Hook.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District

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Etymology
Named in honour of Allan Cunningham (1791–1839), a plant collector for Kew, and colonial botanist in New South Wales.
typification
Lectotype (selected by Brownsey & Perrie 2020): N[ew] Zealand, W. Colenso 1670, 1849, Herb. Hooker., K 001090075!

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462448ad-8ec6-4a81-a5e4-dd8e98a85212
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1 January 2000
7 January 2021
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