Arachniodes aristata

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Wikipedia links:       Monilophytes > Polypodiales > Dryopteridaceae > Arachniodes  aristata

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Plant  information

Common name:         Prickly Shield Fern 

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Etymology:   

• From the Greek arachniodes (like a spider's web), a reference to the indumentum of one species

• The specific epithet "aristata" derives from Latin, meaning "bearing a bristle"

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• It is a glossy fern with fronds up to 1 m long

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• Taxonomy

  • The type specimen was collected by George Forster at an unknown island in the Pacific Ocean, when travelling on the second voyage of James Cook

  • This plant was first formally named Polypodium aristatum in 1786 in the Florulae Insularum Australium Prodromus, published by his father Johann Reinhold Forster

Sources of information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachniodes_aristata (2023)