特徵描述
作者
TSAI, JINN-LAI and SHIEH, WANG-CHUENG
型態特徵
Rhizomes creeping or scandent, dorsiventral, rooting only on the ventral surface and two or more rows of fronds on the dorsal surface of rhizomes. Stipes distant or tufted, bearing peltately attached, ovate or lanceolate, brown scales at base, with one or two grooves on upper side and rounded on underside; fronds dimorphic, simple or pinnate; pinnae (when present) entire or deeply lobed, in some cases jointed to the rachises; basiscopic edges of pinnae decurrent on a wing or ridge on either side of the rachises; veins free (simple or once forked) or anastomosing and forming areolae without included veinlets, or with free excurrent veinlets directed away from the costae. Fertile fronds usually with longer stipes and narrower laminae. Sori acrostichoid.
屬
A family of about 8 genera with over 600 species, distributed in tropics and subtropics, 4 genera in Taiwan.
參考文獻
Lomariopsis 羅蔓藤蕨屬
作者
TSAI, JINN-LAI and SHIEH, WANG-CHUENG
型態特徵
Large epiphytic ferns; rhizomes stout, long scandent, dorsiventral, bearing roots on the underside and several rows of fronds on their upper sides. Fronds pinnate, ending in a terminal pinna, dimorphic, lateral pinnae articulate; stipes stramineous, with a single groove on upper side, not atriculate to rhizome, scaly at least at base; scales brown, opaque, lanceolate; sterile pinnae broadly or narrowly lanceolate; veins free, simple or once forked, sometimes ending in a cartilaginous border; costae prominently raised on underside. Fertile pinnae much contracted. Sori acrostichoid. Spores bilateral, brownish, epispore evident.
