View source for Trichomanes petersii

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|accepted_name=Trichomanes petersii
|accepted_authority=A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Amer. J. Sci. Arts
|place=ser. 2, 15: 326. 1853
|year=1853
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|common_names=Dwarf bristle fern;Peters's bristle fern
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Didymoglossum petersii
|authority=(A. Gray) Copeland
|rank=species
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|hierarchy=Hymenophyllaceae;Trichomanes;Trichomanes petersii
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Hymenophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Trichomanes]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Trichomanes petersii]]</div></div>
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>on rock or epiphytic. <b>Stems</b> long-creeping, threadlike, and intertwining, bearing scattered leaves, covered with dark hairs of 2 types, 2-celled glandular hairs and elongate rhizoidlike hairs; roots absent. <b>Leaves</b> elliptic to oblanceolate, simple, 0.5–2 cm × 2–5 mm, ± entire, bearing simple or 2-cleft dark hairs on margin and 2-celled glandular hairs on petioles and veins; petioles nearly as long as blades. <b>Venation</b> weakly pinnate with numerous unconnected false veins. <b>Soral</b> involucres usually 1 per leaf, terminal on blades, short-conic, flaring widely at mouth; involucre lips not dark edged. <b>Gametophytes</b> composed entirely of branched filaments. <b>Gemmae</b> composed of short filaments of undifferentiated cells. <b>2n</b> = ca. 102.</span><!--

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|habitat=On tree trunks and noncalcareous rocks in deep narrow gorges
|elevation=0–500 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Mexico;Central America in Guatemala.
|discussion=<p><i>Trichomanes petersii</i> has irregular meiosis and generally misshapen spores, but it produces some large and viable spores, presumably unreduced in chromosome number. Gametophytes, identified as this taxon by enzyme electrophoresis, have been observed to produce apogamous sporophytes. Therefore, the species seems capable of some reproduction by an apogamous life cycle. Sporophytes also reproduce vegetatively by dispersible buds formed on the leaves. Although some gametophytes in the vicinity of sporophytes have been shown to be <i>Trichomanes petersii</i>, most of the independent <i>Trichomanes</i> gametophyte populations of the eastern United States are <i>T. intricatum</i>.</p><!--
--><p>Sporophytes of <i>Trichomanes petersii</i> and other species of subg. Didymoglossum form dense mats of imbricated leaves, often excluding all other vegetation. In this habit, as well as in their reduced size and absence of roots, they have adopted a growth form mimicking and successfully competing with bryophytes. In Louisiana and Mississippi, <i>T. petersii</i> occurs on trunks of <i>Fagus</i> and <i>Magnolia</i>. Elsewhere it is on noncalcareous rocks, but in Florida, <i>T. petersii</i> also occurs on chert boulders in limestone sinks and cliffs.</p>
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name=Trichomanes petersii
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Didymoglossum petersii
|basionyms=
|family=Hymenophyllaceae
|habitat=On tree trunks and noncalcareous rocks in deep narrow gorges
|elevation=0–500 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Mexico;Central America in Guatemala.
|reference=None
|publication title=Amer. J. Sci. Arts
|publication year=1853
|special status=Illustrated
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|genus=Trichomanes
|species=Trichomanes petersii
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