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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Anchistea from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Monilophytes (ferns): Leptosporangiate Ferns (true ferns): Polypodiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Anchistea virginica
FAMILY
Blechnaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Woodwardia virginica
FAMILY
Blechnaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 012-01-001:
Woodwardia virginica
FAMILY
Blechnaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Anchistea virginica
COMMON NAME:
Virginia Chain-fern
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_anvi6_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_wovi_002_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm160416_220
April Lowndes County GA
Fronds upright, scattered along rhizomes and emerging individually, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.
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JK Marlow jkm160416_222
April Lowndes County GA
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JK Marlow jkm160416_335
April Lowndes County GA
Blade leathery, glossy, with around 15 pairs of closely spaced pinnae, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.
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JK Marlow jkm0505s_36
May Williamsburg County SC
Stipe is dark purple-brown, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.
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JK Marlow jkm150529_104
May Spartanburg County SC
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Emily B. Sessa ebswvirginica_1119
June
Small veins form a row of areoles each side of midvein; all others are free, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia.
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Emily B. Sessa ebswvirginica_4188
July
Sori chainlike, elongate, along midvein & at tip of pinnae lobes, per Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America.
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Emily B. Sessa ebswvirginica_4203
July
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_w_virginica_virchain2
August
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JK Marlow jkm081009_317
October Bamberg County SC
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JK Marlow s081009_b
October Bamberg County SC
Pinnae lanceolate. Lobes short, blunt, smooth-margined, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia.
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JK Marlow s081009_b2
October Bamberg County SC
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JK Marlow s081009_b3
October Bamberg County SC
Sori on each side of pinnae midrib, also paralleling pinnule midveins, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia.