Species: Polypodium glycyrrhiza

Licorice Fern
Species
Plants

Long-creeping, licorice-flavored rhizome; stipes 2-18(27) cm long; the expanded portion of the frond ovate-lanceoloate to nearly oblong, 6(8)-23(35) cm long, 2.5-7(12) cm wide, deeply pinnatifid, truncate at the base, acuminate to acute at the apex; sori are naked (no indusium); terrestrail on shaded banks, epiphytic on tree trunks, or occasionally epipetric.

Source: Encyclopedia of Life

Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Filicinophyta
Class

Filicopsida

Order

Filicales

Family

Polypodiaceae

Genus

Polypodium

Natureserve Explorer
Source:
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Classification
Other Global Common Names
licorice fern - polypode réglisse
Informal Taxonomy
Plants, Vascular - Ferns and relatives
Formal Taxonomy
Plantae - Filicinophyta - Filicopsida - Filicales - Polypodiaceae - Polypodium

Long-creeping, licorice-flavored rhizome; stipes 2-18(27) cm long; the expanded portion of the frond ovate-lanceoloate to nearly oblong, 6(8)-23(35) cm long, 2.5-7(12) cm wide, deeply pinnatifid, truncate at the base, acuminate to acute at the apex; sori are naked (no indusium); terrestrail on shaded banks, epiphytic on tree trunks, or occasionally epipetric.

Source: Encyclopedia of Life

NatureServe Global Status Rank
G5
Global Status Last Reviewed
1985-09-06
Global Status Last Changed
1985-09-06
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
Chiefly near the coast (but not really maritime), extending inland to the w. base of the Cascade Mtns., and in the Columbia R. Gorge; Kamtchatka and the Aluetian Is. to s. Alaska, s. to c. California, and disjunct in northern Idaho.
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