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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.