OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Monilophytes (ferns): Leptosporangiate Ferns (true ferns): Polypodiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Lorinseria areolata   FAMILY Blechnaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Woodwardia areolata   FAMILY Blechnaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Lorinseria areolata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Woodwardia areolata

SYNONYMOUS WITH The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014)

Woodwardia areolata

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 012-01-002:

Woodwardia areolata   FAMILY Blechnaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Ferns of the Southeastern States (Small, 1938)

Lorinseria areolata

 

COMMON NAME:
Netted Chain-fern, Net-veined Chainfern


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image of Lorinseria areolata, Netted Chain-fern, Net-veined Chainfern

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_loar7_001_lvd

        

image of Lorinseria areolata, Netted Chain-fern, Net-veined Chainfern

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide    pnd_woar_004_lvd

        

image of Lorinseria areolata, Netted Chain-fern, Net-veined Chainfern

JK Marlow    jkm150412_242

April    Pickens County    SC

Laurel Fork Heritage Preserve

image of Lorinseria areolata, Netted Chain-fern, Net-veined Chainfern

JK Marlow    jkm150412_245

April    Pickens County    SC

Laurel Fork Heritage Preserve

image of Lorinseria areolata, Netted Chain-fern, Net-veined Chainfern

JK Marlow    jkm200403_3511

April    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

image of Lorinseria areolata, Netted Chain-fern, Net-veined Chainfern

Emily B. Sessa    ebswareolata_4766

June        

Pinnae tend to be acute or acuminate (vs. Onoclea's obtuse), per Weakley's Flora.


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image of Lorinseria areolata, Netted Chain-fern, Net-veined Chainfern

JK Marlow    s030628_de

June    Greenville County    SC

Creekside/Riverside

[Sterile frond on left, fertile on right.] Leaves strongly dimorphic, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Lorinseria areolata, Netted Chain-fern, Net-veined Chainfern

JK Marlow    jkm0007c_12

July    Greenville County    SC

Creekside/Riverside

image of Lorinseria areolata, Netted Chain-fern, Net-veined Chainfern

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_woodwardia_areolata_4

August        

image of Lorinseria areolata, Netted Chain-fern, Net-veined Chainfern

JK Marlow    s040815_a

August    Greenville County    SC

Bunched Arrowhead Heritage Preserve

image of Lorinseria areolata, Netted Chain-fern, Net-veined Chainfern

JK Marlow    jkm210907_3587

September    Greenville County    SC

Blackwell Heritage Preserve

image of Lorinseria areolata, Netted Chain-fern, Net-veined Chainfern

JK Marlow    jkm091006_010

October    Greenville County    SC

Prominent veins conspicuously netted, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia (Snyder & Bruce, 1986).

image of Lorinseria areolata, Netted Chain-fern, Net-veined Chainfern

JK Marlow    jkm091006_016

October    Greenville County    SC

Sori are large, elongate, and in two chains like links of sausage, per Ferns of the Smokies (Evans, 2005).

image of Lorinseria areolata, Netted Chain-fern, Net-veined Chainfern

JK Marlow    jkm101112_128

November    Greenville County    SC

Swamp Rabbit Trail

Fertile leaves are much contracted, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Lorinseria areolata, Netted Chain-fern, Net-veined Chainfern

JK Marlow    s071123_a2

November    Greenville County    SC

Creekside/Riverside

Pinnae of fertile leaves with 2 rows of linear sori; indusia firm & persistent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Lorinseria areolata, Netted Chain-fern, Net-veined Chainfern

Sharleen Johnson    shj_1199022284043657

December    Charleston County    SC

Francis Marion National Forest

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Lorinseria areolata   FAMILY Blechnaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Woodwardia areolata   FAMILY Blechnaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Lorinseria areolata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Woodwardia areolata

SYNONYMOUS WITH The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014)
Woodwardia areolata

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 012-01-002:
Woodwardia areolata   FAMILY Blechnaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Ferns of the Southeastern States (Small, 1938)
Lorinseria areolata

 

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1677

Fern/Fern ally
Perennial

Habitat: Moist to wet, acid, organic soils, such as bogs, blackwater bottomlands, pocosins, wet hammocks, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common (uncommon in NC Mountains)

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LEAVES:
Deciduous
Pinnatifid
Leaves spaced along a long-creeping rhizome

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall

 

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