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| Phegopteris connectilis (Michx.) Watt | Species Image Gallery (opens in a new window) |
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| TAXONOMY | |||||||||
| Family: | Thelypteridaceae | ||||||||
| Genus: | Phegopteris | ||||||||
| Species Synonyms: | Dryopteris phegopteris (L.) C. Christens. Lastrea phegopteris (L.) Bory Phegopteris polypodioides Fée Thelypteris phegopteris (L.) Slosson |
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| Common Names: | long beechfern narrow beechfern northern beechfern |
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| DISTRIBUTION | |||||||||
| Canada: | Yukon – southern Mackenzie District – British Columbia – southwestern Alberta, Saskatchewan, southern Ontario – Labrador | ||||||||
| Saskatchewan: | northern and eastern Saskatchewan; Cluff Lake – northeastern Pasquia Hills | ||||||||
| Ecoregion: | Mid-Boreal Upland, Churchill River Upland, Tazin Lake Upland | ||||||||
| HABITAT | |||||||||
| Saskatchewan: | moist, wooded streamsides | ||||||||
| Associated species: | black spruce, dwarf red raspberry, resin birch, speckled alder, wild sarsaparilla, willow | ||||||||
| RARITY STATUS | |||||||||
| Provincial
Status According to Harms (2003): |
Threatened |
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| Nature Conservancy Status: | G5 S2 |
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| Saskatchewan
Species at Risk Status: |
None |
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| COSEWIC Status: | None |
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| Long beechfern is threatened because of rarity in Saskatchewan. It is only somewhat regionally restricted but local sizes vary. No immediate threats are known but may occur in the future. | |||||||||
| SPECIES DESCRIPTION | |||||||||
| Height: | 10 – 50 cm long | ||||||||
| Rhizomes: | slender, creeping, scaly when young | ||||||||
| Fronds: | solitary, fertile and sterile leaves similar, often 1 – 2 cm apart, 15 – 60 cm long, twice lobed; stalk straw-coloured, 15 – 35 cm long, as long as or up to twice as long as blade; scales on base of stalk lance-shaped, brownish, hairless or sparingly hairy; blade triangular, 12 – 25 cm long, usually longer than broad, covering of hairs moderate to dense | ||||||||
| Pinnae: | in 10 – 25 opposite pairs, deeply lobed, 6 – 12 cm long, 1 – 3 cm wide, lowermost 1 – 2 pairs separate and sharply deflexed, sessile, upper pairs fused and connected by central axis wing; pinnules entire, occasionally round-toothed | ||||||||
| Sori: | subterminal on veins; covering on sorus absent | ||||||||
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