General Information

COMMON NAMES: Lomagramma Fern GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE Southeast Polynesia (Rarotonga, Societies) COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native, Endemic of se.Polynesia; Land, mountains (+) SIGNIFICANCE LIST: ; Locally endangered KEY FEATURES: Ground and low-climbing epiphytic fern. FRONDS to 1m; stalk base densely hairy; leaves ~opposite, ladderlike (pinnate), lancelike, to 20x4cm. Fertile-frond leaves to 12x1cm, spores covering underside of leaves.

Cook Islands Distribution

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

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

Lomagramma tahitensis Holttum
TAXONOMY: PLANTAE; PTERIDOPHYTA (=Pterophyta); Aspidiales; LOMARIOPSIDACEAE

SIGNIFICANCE NOTES -
BIODIVERSITY: Locally endangered. Comment: First collected 1991 by G.McCormack, known from one site only in upper Avana Valley.

IDENTIFICATION: Ground and low-climbing epiphytic fern, with fronds to 1m. ROOT thick and hairy, with well-spaced fronds. Low-climbing to 3m, with fertile fronds uppermost. FROND non-fertile: stalk, to 40cm, with brown hairs, especially at the base; leaves ladderlike, opposite to sub-opposite; LEAVES lancelike, to 20x4cm, leathery, base round and asymmetrical, tip sharp, stalk short to 2mm. FROND fertile: smaller; leaves smaller, to 12x1cm, fleshy and brittle; spores cover underside except for midrib.

Vouchers:
None Recorded.

References:
None recorded.

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB02, zM02, zupM04b, zD02, zupD04b

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