Classification
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Dryopteris erythrosora (D.C.Eaton) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2, 812 (1891)
Synonymy:
  • Aspidium erythrosorum D.C.Eaton in Perry, Narr. Exped. China Japan 2, 330 (1856)
Holotype: Simoda, Japan, C. Wright, 1853–1856, US 0135342 (!online)
Etymology:
From the Latin erythrosorus (with red sori), a reference to the colour of the sori in this species.
 Recognition

Dryopteris erythrosora has an erect to short-creeping rhizome, 2-pinnate ovate laminae, and narrowly ovate blackish-brown scales on the stipe. Young fronds are often red-tinged. The scales on the costae are inflated, with long, attenuate apices. The sori are arranged in one row either side of the costae, and the reniform indusia characteristically have red centres (Hoshizaki & Moran 2001).

 Distribution

North Island: Northland.

Altitudinal range: c. 80 m.

Collected as an escape from cultivation in Kerikeri.

Occurs naturally in China, Korea and Japan (Wu et al. 2013).

 Habitat

Recorded as self-sown near to a cultivated parent plant.

 Biostatus
Exotic
 First Record

Heenan et al. (2008). Voucher AK 288162, 2004.

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