Sytemaseyt 1
Sytemaseyt 1
Sytemaseyt 1
Commonly cultivated, not spontaneous; an introduced form here. Cul- tivated in all tropical countries.
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Leaves Leaf-like with a glossy finish and Reach 2.5 m tall. The petioles are
the stems are darker, adding a sparse to moderate with reddish to
nice contrast. Grows to a mature light brown hair-like scales. The rachis
height of between 6 to 12 inches has moderately spaced scales of one
(15 to 30.4 cm) tall and 4 feet color. The pinnae reach 23 cm long, 2
(1.2 meters) wide. cm wide, attached to 3.5 cm apart.
Stem an almost black stem that runs Stems ascending to erect, bearing wiry
up into the leaf stolons and sometimes underground
tubers, reach 23 cm long, 2 cm wide,
attached to 3.5 cm apart.
Roots The aerial roots or Rhizomes Orange/brown to pale brown with linear
that grow around the base of the scales having hair like tips. The roots
plants. usually are not deep but form quite
dense mats.
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NEPHROLEPIS BISERRATA
reeping
which have Rootstock short, erect, stout, with
ey look scaly prop-roots, sending out long
an the stolons, the scales brown, often
ferns. The dense, entire or irregularly ciliate.
glossy Fronds erect, or if epiphytic, then
rker, pendulous, tufted, the stipes .30 to 60
cm long, nearly glabrous except at
the scaly base, .the fronds 0.6 to 2 m
long, more, 20 to 40cm wide.
Plant #2
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Leaves The leaves are large at the tip and smaller Leaves are sensitive, pinnately
towards the petiole compound, crowded into rosette
on top of stem, and 5–12 cm
long, with 6–12 pairs of leaflets
Roots Root is stout and woody and stems are often prefer to be very moist to wet
branched at base and angular though, and especially have its
roots in a wet substrate
Flower Flowers are greenish white, minute and Flowers are dimorphic, 8 mm
appear at axillae of the leaves, as well as the across yellow peduncle, many,
seed capsules. Numerous small green-red and up to 10 cm long. Sepals are
fruits, round and smooth, are found along the 5, lanceolate, imbricate, and acute
underside of the stems, which are erect and with parallel nerves.
red.
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Leaves leaves are simple, entire, opposite The leaves of the plant are ovate, and generally
and decussate, short-stalked and occur in whorls of three.
pinnately veined.
Stem with bushy growth habit and semi- an evergreen vine, or shrub that grows to a
woody branched stem, height
Roots with bushy growth habit and semi- has a white to brown roots
woody branched
Flower Flower colour is pink/white and The flowers can occur in clusters of 3-4 to a
tubular, swollen in the region of bunch of 11-12. It has 8-10 calyx teeth that are 5
anthers, throat of corolla-tube hairy. to 8 mm long and very slender.
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