Consortium of Pacific Herbaria

Mecodium
Family: Hymenophyllaceae Images not available	Taxonomic Description Resources Palmer, Daniel D. 2003. Hawaii's Ferns and Fern Allies. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, HI. p. 324. Derivation of generic name unknown. Plants small to medium-sized, filmy, epiphytic. Rhizomes threadlike. Blades 2- to 3-pinnate, membranous, glabrous, I cell thick except at veins, margins entire. Sori embedded in ultimate segments. Indusia bivalvate, deeply cleft. A pan tropical and southern genus of about 100 species, with northern species on Sakhalin and Queen Charlotte Island. Represented in Hawai 'i by a single endemic species.
Species within checklist: Hawai`i's Ferns and Fern Allies Mecodium recurvum

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Mecodium