Cryptogramma cascadensis

Cryptogramma cascadensis
	Cryptogramma cascadensis on a rock wall near Frozen Lake on Mount Rainier, Washington, USA
Conservation status
	; Secure (NatureServe)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Division:	Polypodiophyta
Class:	Polypodiopsida
Order:	Polypodiales
Family:	Pteridaceae
Genus:	Cryptogramma
Species:	C. cascadensis
Binomial name
	Cryptogramma cascadensis; E.R.Alverson

Cryptogramma cascadensis is a species of fern known by the common names Cascade parsley fern and Cascade rockbrake.

Description

The plant forms a clump from a rhizome. It has two types of leaves. The sterile leaf is flat with lobed oval or diamond-shaped leaflets, and the fertile leaf is longer, with narrow, thick, fingerlike leaflets with edges curled under to cover the sporangia on the undersides. The leaves are deciduous.^[2] The hydathodes are shallow and linear, unlike the pit-like hydathodes of Cryptogramma acrostichoides.^[2]^[3]

Taxonomy

Formerly lumped with Cryptogramma acrostichoides, C. cascadensis was described as a distinct species by Ed Alverson in 1989. The type specimen was collected growing on talus below Chair Peak, 5 km (3 mi) northwest of Snoqualmie Pass.^[3]

Distribution and habitat

It is native to western North America from British Columbia to Montana to California, where it grows in the cracks and crevices of mountain talus slopes, especially in moist subalpine areas on volcanic or granite rocks.

Gallery

Hydathodes

References

↑ NatureServe. "Cryptogramma cascadensis". NatureServe Explorer. Arlington, Virginia.
1 2 Hitchcock, C. Leo; Cronquist, Arthur (2018). Giblin, David; Legler, Ben; Zika, Peter F.; Olmstead, Richard G. (eds.). Flora of the Pacific Northwest (Second ed.). Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press. p. 56. ISBN 9780295742885. OCLC 1027726040.
1 2 Alverson, Edward R. (1989). "Cryptogramma cascadensis, a new parsley-fern from western North America". American Fern Journal. 79 (3): 95–102. Bibcode:1989AmFJ...79...95A. doi:10.2307/1547291. JSTOR 1547291.

Christenhusz, Maarten J. M.; Xian-Chun Zhang & Herald Scheider (18 February 2011). "A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns" (PDF). Phytotaxa. 19 (1): 7–54. Bibcode:2011Phytx..19....7C. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.19.1.2.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

External links

Jepson Manual Treatment
NRCS. "Cryptogramma cascadensis". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). "Cryptogramma cascadensis". Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri and Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Cryptogramma cascadensis in the CalPhotos photo database, University of California, Berkeley

[1] NatureServe. "Cryptogramma cascadensis". NatureServe Explorer. Arlington, Virginia.

[Hitchcock_and_Cronquist-2] 1 2 Hitchcock, C. Leo; Cronquist, Arthur (2018). Giblin, David; Legler, Ben; Zika, Peter F.; Olmstead, Richard G. (eds.). Flora of the Pacific Northwest (Second ed.). Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press. p. 56. ISBN 9780295742885. OCLC 1027726040.

[Alverson-3] 1 2 Alverson, Edward R. (1989). "Cryptogramma cascadensis, a new parsley-fern from western North America". American Fern Journal. 79 (3): 95–102. Bibcode:1989AmFJ...79...95A. doi:10.2307/1547291. JSTOR 1547291.

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