| Sample ID | 407-21-1-22b |
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| Species | adiantoides |
| Genus | Asplenium |
| Family | POLYPODIACEAE |
| Common name | spleenwort |
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| Pollen / Spore | spore |
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| Morphologic type | monolete |
| Surface pattern | psilate |
| Equatorial size | mean 50 |
| Polar size | mean 20 |
| Equatorial shape | oblate, prolate |
| Aperture count | 1 |
| Wall thickness | 1.5 |
| Wall evenness | even |
| Morphology notes | Perispore often attached as also seen with sporangeum. Psilate/monolete. Perispore typically winged, spiny, reticulate or perforate. |
| Plant type | fern |
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| Floristic region(s) | India (tropical) , Northwest Pacific , West Pacific , Central Pacific , East Pacific Islands , China (tropical) , New Zealand (north) , Other outside Australasia , Maritime Southeast Asia , Australia (tropical) |
| Vegetation communities | woodland |
| Habitat notes | Occurs in Asia, tropical Australia, New Zealand, Polynesia, east Africa and adjacent islands.In crags and under forest canopies. Common on slopes of mountains. worldwide distribution. Noted by Skottsberg in 1920 and by Gossen in 2010 in the crater lake Rano Kao, Rapa Nui. Gossen identified the fern growing 110m from the edge of the lake on the floating mat of moss peat. Fertile. Scarce and limited to the crater lake of Rano Kao. Terrestrial, on rock or rarely epiphytic. Stems erect or nearly erect, rarely long-creeping, scaly. |
| Collector | Grant 3758 |
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| Collection site | Society Islands, Tahiti |
| Collection country | French Polynesia |
| Collection date | 1930-06-06 |
| Collection notes | Processed at the Pollen Laboratory, University of Minnesota, USA from the collecton of Ed Cushing, slide ref. B1725 |
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