Pellaea rotundifolia
| Pellaea rotundifolia | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Pteridophyta |
| Class: | Polypodiopsida |
| Order: | Polypodiales |
| Family: | Pteridaceae |
| Genus: | Pellaea |
| Species: | P. rotundifolia |
| Binomial name | |
| Pellaea rotundifolia (G. Forst.) Hook. | |
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Pellaea rotundifolia, the Button fern, is a species of fern endemic to New Zealand, where it grows in scrub and forests.[1] It is also a popular garden plant (in zones 8 and 9) and house plant.
Pellaea rotundifolia is an evergreen fern that can have more than 30 pairs of round, dark-green, leathery pinnae on fronds up to 18 in. (45 cm).[2]
It needs acidic and well-drained soil; it does not appreciate the moist, humid conditions that most ferns require so does well with minimal watering.[3]
References
- GBIF entry
- USDA Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) entry
- Sp. fil. 2:136. 1858.
- G. Brownlie, "Cyto-Taxonomic Studies on New Zealand Pteridaceae", New Phytologist, Vol. 56, No. 2 (Jul., 1957), pp. 207-209.
- Gerald J. Gastony and David R. Rollo, "Phylogeny and Generic Circumscriptions of Cheilanthoid Ferns (Pteridaceae: Cheilanthoideae) Inferred from rbcL Nucleotide Sequences", American Fern Journal, Vol. 85, No. 4, Use of Molecular Data in Evolutionary Studies of Pteridophytes (Oct. - Dec., 1995), pp. 341-360.
- Nico Vermeulen, Encyclopedia of House Plants, Taylor & Francis, 1999, pages 22-23. ISBN 978-1-57958-108-4.