- Cyclosorus interruptus
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Cyclosorus interruptus 
Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Division: Pteridophyta Class: Pteridopsida Order: Athyriales Family: Thelypteridaceae Genus: Cyclosorus Species: C. interruptus Binomial name Cyclosorus interruptus
(Willd.) H.ItôSynonyms - Cyclosorus gongylodes
Cyclosorus interruptus is a fern in the Marsh Fern family. With a broad distribution in Australia, India, China, Malaysia, Sri Lanka,[1] New Zealand, Hawaii and other islands in the Pacific Ocean. The habitat in New South Wales is by freshwater swamps where it may reach one metre in height.
In the year 1770, it was collected by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander not far from Botany Bay.[2] Despite urbanization, it still occurs in a park in the Sydney bayside suburb of Monterey. The specific epithet interruptus is from the Latin, and refers to the sori.[3] Sori are in zig-zag rows or a v-shaped series along the frond margins, protected by a hairy, round or kidney shaped indusium.[4]
This plant appeared first appeared in scientific literature as Pteris interrupta in 1794, published by the German taxonomist Carl Ludwig Willdenow. In 1810, it also appeared in the Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae as Nephrodium propinquum, authored by the prolific Scottish botanist, Robert Brown. However, this plant has undergone considerable review, name changes and taxonomic debate.[5]
Cultivation
Likely to be a useful landscape plant, if kept damp and in gardens free of frost.[6] There are reports that the rhizome is edible.[7]
References
- ^ "San Diego Fern Society". http://www.sandiegofernsociety.com/page1/.
- ^ "Doug Benson and Georgina Eldershaw. Backdrop to encounter: the 1770 landscape of Botany Bay,the plants collected by Banks and Solander and rehabilitation of natural vegetation at Kurnell". http://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/85067/Cun101113Ben.pdf.
- ^ Les Robinson - Field Guide to the Native Plants of Sydney, ISBN 9780731812110 page 320
- ^ Native Plants of the Sydney District - Alan Fairley & Philip Moore ISBN 0731810317, page 40
- ^ "Cyclosorus interruptus - Australian Plant Name Index". http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/apni?00TAXON_NAME=Cyclosorus+interruptus.
- ^ "San Diego Fern Society". http://www.sandiegofernsociety.com/page1/.
- ^ Les Robinson - Field Guide to the Native Plants of Sydney, ISBN 9780731812110 page 320
Categories:- Thelypteridaceae
- Fern species
- Flora of New South Wales
- Flora of Queensland
- Flora of Western Australia
- Flora of the Northern Territory
- Flora of Hawaii
- Flora of New Zealand
- Flora of India
- Flora of China
- Flora of Sri Lanka
- Flora of Malaysia
- Plants described in 1794
- Fern stubs
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