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Phlebodium aureum

Golden Polypody

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Golden Polypody, Rabbit's-foot Fern, Hare's-foot Fern

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE Florida - Argentina; EXOTIC EXOTIC incl. Hawai‘i (naturalized)

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Introduced - Recent, Not naturalised; S.Group (RR - occasional); Land, gardens

SIGNIFICANCE LIST: Ornamental - leaves

KEY FEATURES: Fronds to 100x50cm, oval to triangular, deeply dissected into wavy straplike sections; sori round in 1-2 irregular rows, often yellow. Root (=rhizome) thick (to 15mm) with bright rusty brown scales.

Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present Makatea:
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
P							-	-

Northern Group: -
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
-	-	-	-	-	-

Key to Symbols

blank	no data
-	absent	L	localised
X	extinct 'naturally'	W	widespread
XQi	quarantine intercepted	R	recent
XQe	eradicated	?	query preceding category
P	present	T?	taxonomic query
S	seasonal	nn	present, said to have no name
O	occasional	?1	present, name not investigated
++++	very common	?2	presence not verified, no name recorded
+++	common	N/A	absent, name not expected
++	uncommon
+	rare
Cook Islands islands: RR =Rarotonga, MG = Mangaia, AT =‘Ātiu, MK=Ma‘uke, MT=Miti‘āro, AK=Aitutaki, PL=Palmerston, PN=Penrhyn, MN=Manuae, TK=Takūtea, TN=Tongareva (TS=Tongaleva Spoken, TW=Tongareva Written, they say "el" but write "r"), MH=Manihiki, RK=Rakahanga, PK=Pukapuka, NS=Nassau, SW=Suwarrow. After a Polynesian name: ^=orthography query. Countries and other: FIJ=Fiji, WT=Wallis & Futuna, SAM=Samoa, TON=Tonga, NIU=Niue, CK=Cook Islands, CKM=Cook Islands Māori, FP=French Polynesia, AUS=Australs, SOC=Societies, TAH=Tahiti, TUA=Tuamotus, MQS=Marquesas, MNG=Mangareva, PIT=Pitcain group, EAS=Easter Island, HAW=Hawai‘i, NZ=New Zealand, NZM=New Zealand Māori

Scientific Taxonomy

Phlebodium aureum (L.)
SYNONYMS: Polypodium aureum [O]; Polypodium mandaianum

TAXONOMY: PLANTAE; PTERIDOPHYTA (=Pterophyta); Polypodiales; POLYPODIACEAE

More Information

IDENTIFICATION: To 1m. RHIZOME 15mmØ, bright brown hair-like scales. FROND to 100x50cm, pale green, without hairs, oval to arrow-likedeeply dissected, ; segments to 30x5cm, strap-like, edge wavy; SORI in 1-2 irregular rows, often yellow; stalk (=stipe) to 50cm. Cvs 4.

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: fieldspecimen+photo, 3/2002, Taripo and Birmie gardens, ID B.Sykes

References:
p.26 Neal - In Gardens of Hawaii
p.897 Hortus 3rd
p.877 Royal Hort. Soc. Index of Garden Plants
p.436 Tropica

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB02, zM02, zD02

Web Resources

Citation Information

McCormack, Gerald (2007) Cook Islands Biodiversity Database, Version 2007.2. Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust, Rarotonga. Online at http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org.
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