Pellaea rotundifolia

Pellaea rotundifolia, the button fern, is a species of fern endemic to New Zealand, where it grows in scrub and forests.[2] It is also a popular garden plant (in zones 8 and 9) and house plant, tolerating low temperatures but not freezing.[3]

Pellaea rotundifolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Family: Pteridaceae
Genus: Pellaea
Species:
P. rotundifolia
Binomial name
Pellaea rotundifolia
(G. Forst.) Hook.
Synonyms[1]
  • Allosorus rotundifolius (G.Forst.) Kunze
  • Hemionitis rotundifolia (G.Forst.) Christenh.
  • Platyloma rotundifolium (G.Forst.) J.Sm.
  • Pteris rotundifolia G.Forst.

Pellaea rotundifolia is a compact, evergreen fern that can have more than 30 pairs of round, dark-green, leathery pinnae on fronds up to 18 in (460 mm) in length.[2] The Latin specific epithet rotundifolia means “round-leaved”.[4]

  • Underside of the pinnae
  • In cultivation

Cultivation

It needs acidic and well-drained soil; it does not appreciate the moist, humid conditions that most ferns require so does well with minimal watering.[2]

This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit.[3][5]

gollark: The question is, though, how easily can such a feat be replicated nowadays?
gollark: I should post some information a few people are mildly interested in, then remove it al to annoy them.
gollark: Which galaxy?
gollark: Just break into his house and find the old versions on his computers' HDDs. Most locks aren't too hard to pick, and you can get around Windows security and stuff easily with a Linux live USB!
gollark: stalking™

References
  1. Hassler, Michael & Schmitt, Bernd (November 2019). "Pellaea rotundifolium [sic]". Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World. 8.11. Retrieved 2019-01-05.
  2. Olsen, Sue. Encyclopedia of Garden Ferns. 2007.
  3. "RHS Plantfinder - Pellaea rotundifolia". Retrieved 18 April 2018.
  4. Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 184533731X.
  5. "AGM Plants - Ornamental" (PDF). Royal Horticultural Society. July 2017. p. 75. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
  • Sp. fil. 2:136. 1858.
  • G. Brownlie, "Cyto-Taxonomic Studies on New Zealand Pteridaceae", New Phytologist, Vol. 56, No. 2 (Jul., 1957), pp. 207–209.
  • Gerald J. Gastony and David R. Rollo, "Phylogeny and Generic Circumscriptions of Cheilanthoid Ferns (Pteridaceae: Cheilanthoideae) Inferred from rbcL Nucleotide Sequences", American Fern Journal, Vol. 85, No. 4, Use of Molecular Data in Evolutionary Studies of Pteridophytes (Oct. - Dec., 1995), pp. 341–360.
  • Nico Vermeulen, Encyclopedia of House Plants, Taylor & Francis, 1999, pages 22–23. ISBN 978-1-57958-108-4.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.