Inuwarabi - Inuwarabi

Japanese: イヌワラビ - いぬわらび
Inuwarabi - Inuwarabi

A fern of the Dryopteris family. 40-80 cm leaves grow crowded together on creeping rhizomes. The leaf axis is usually reddish purple. The scales are lanceolate, light brown, and sparse. The leaf blade is almost the same length as the petiole, ovate-oblong with a tapered tip, and herbaceous. Bipinnately compound, tripinnately deeply lobed. The pinna stalks are usually 5 mm or longer. The sporangia and intumescence vary from linear to hook-shaped, and the edges are irregularly uneven. It is distributed from southwestern Hokkaido to Kyushu. A variety with a striking reddish purple axis and white spots along the axis is called Nishikishida and is suitable for ornamental purposes.

[Harufumi Nishida]

Main types of ferns (5) [specimen illustrations]
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Main types of ferns (5) [specimen illustrations]


Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

オシダ科のシダ。匍匐(ほふく)した根茎に40~80センチメートルの葉が込み合ってつく。葉軸は普通、紅紫色を帯びる。鱗片(りんぺん)は披針(ひしん)形をした淡褐色で、まばらにつく。葉身は葉柄とほぼ等長で、先が細く伸びた卵状長楕円(ちょうだえん)形をなし、草質。2回羽状複生、3回羽状深裂。羽片の柄は普通5ミリメートル以上である。胞子嚢(ほうしのう)群と包膜は直線状、鉤(かぎ)形など変化があり、縁(へり)には不規則な凹凸がある。北海道南西部から九州にかけて分布する。軸の紅紫色が著しく、羽軸に沿い白斑(はくはん)のある品種はニシキシダといわれ、観賞に適する。

[西田治文]

シダ植物のおもな種類(5)〔標本画〕
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シダ植物のおもな種類(5)〔標本画〕


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