Deparia petersenii
Collection data
Classification & Common Names
- Class: Polypodiopsida
- Family: Athyriaceae
- Genus: Deparia Hook. & Grev.
- Species: Deparia petersenii (Kunze) M.Kato
Collection Data
- Collection Date: 10-XI-2016
- Collection Number: 4366
- Primary collector: M. Sundue & H. Maraia
- Collected by: Irene Engilis, Alan Hitch, Ed de Vogel, John Trochet, Nittya Semard, Allen Allison, Raymon Joshua, Kore Maraia, Dabio, Alois Gambia
- Determined by: M. Sundue (VT)
- Habitat: Castanopsis forest
- Habit: Terrestrial
- Specimen locations: LAE, VT
Collection Location
- General location: Wild Dog Camp - former site of SINIVIT Wild Dog Mine
- Country: Papua New Guinea
- State or Province: East New Britain
- Coordinates: ,
- Elevation: 1355 m
About the Author
Michael Sundue
My field work is centered in Colombia, and Papua New Guinea. I am based at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (E). If you have any ferns that you want identified, please send them to me!
Cool – dramatically different than the plants I have seen in Florida, USA, where this species is invasive. I wonder if they are the same thing.
Good question! Take a look at this if you haven’t already: Shinohara, W., Hsu, T.W., Moore, S.J. and Murakami, N., 2006. Genetic analysis of the newly found diploid cytotype of Deparia petersenii (Woodsiaceae: Pteridophyta): Evidence for multiple origins of the tetraploid. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 167(2), pp.299-309.