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Menisciopsis wailele

(Flynn) S.E.Fawc. & A.R.Sm. (2021)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Pteridophyta Class/Clade: Polypodiopsida Order: Polypodiales Family: Thelypteridaceae Genus: Menisciopsis

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Uses and Culture

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Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Kaua'i Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Bibliography

Name Published In: Fawcett, S., & Smith, A. R. A Generic Classification of the Thelypteridaceae p.53 (2021)

Other References

Palmer 2003:90 (K [as Christella wailele]); Snow et al. 2011:15 (Syn. Christella wailele = Cyclosorus wailele); Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group 2016:585 (Syn. Cyclosorus wailele = Christella wailele); Fawcett & Smith 2021:53 (COMBNOV, Syn. C. wailele = M. wailele)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Menisciopsis wailele Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen dwarf Forbes, C.N. 664 Kauai BISH 1916-10-22
2 Menisciopsis wailele Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details On sheer rock face in spray of waterfall. Hurricane Iniki devastated lowland wet forest dominated by Metrosideros, Antidesma, Syzygium, and Pisonia along the streams with Diplazium, Dicranopteris, Cyanea spp., Cyrtandra, and Psychotria Preserved_Specimen Rhizome long, creeping; fronds pendant, base of stipe dark brown becoming pale green, pinnae dull pale green above, dull pale green below with dark costa. Very localized with Pneumatopteris, Boehmeria, and Marchantia. Flynn, T.W. 5130 Kauai BISH 1992-11-05
3 Menisciopsis wailele Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 84 Kauai BISH 1909-07-23
4 Menisciopsis wailele Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 84 Kauai BISH 1909-07-23
5 Menisciopsis wailele Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details wet forest of Metrosideros, Perrottetia, Sadleria, Touchardia, Cyanea, Hedyotis, Cyrtandra, Diplazium, Pneumatopteris, Rubus rosifolius, Cyathea cooperi, Youngia japonica, Deparia prolifera, Pilea, Machaerina, Marchantia; wet walls at back Preserved_Specimen rhizome long creeping, fronds pendant; stipe glossy dark brown to pale green, rachis dark glossy brown, pinnae glossy medium green above, glossy paler below with dark brownish green costa Flynn, T.W. 5319 Kauai BISH 1993-03-22
6 Menisciopsis wailele Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros 40 - 60% closed w/ 12-15 m tall canopy, understory of Perrottetia, Psychotria spp, Dubautia spp, Labordia spp, Tetraplasandra kavaiensis, T. oahuensis, rich fern and bryophyte understory. Preserved_Specimen Very back of E fork around waterfall, rhizome long creeping, fronds pendent, ca 20 - 30 plants, probably more on walls above falls. Wood, K.R. 13100 Kauai BISH 2008-06-16
7 Menisciopsis wailele Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details with Metrosideros, Psychotria, Melicope, Bobea, Pritchardia, Boehmeria, Pleomele, Hedyotis, Charpentiera, pteridophytes, Schiedea; seeping basalt vertical stream walls, close to flood zone Preserved_Specimen brown black creeping rhizome; ~20 fronds; fronds pendant Wood, K.R. 3461 Kauai BISH 1994-08-31
8 Menisciopsis wailele Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros-Cheirodendron-Dicranopteris wet forest and deeply carved drainage with riparian vegetation w/ Kadua affins, Psychotria mariniana, P. hexandra, Coprosma kauaiensis, Syzygium sandwicensis, Perrottetia sandwicensis, Dubautia raillardioides, D. laxa, Melicope wawrana, M. clusiifolia, Myrsine w Preserved_Specimen Fern, rheophyte, along stream walls, creeping rhizome, fronds pendent Wood, K.R. 15904 Kauai BISH 2014-03-27
9 Menisciopsis wailele Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Riparian vegetation within hanging valley with patches of Metrosideros lowland wet forest w/ Antidesma platyphylla, Perrottetia sandwicensis, Dubautia knudsenii, Psychotria hexandra, Kadua tryblium, Bobea elatior, Ployscias oahuensis, Coprosma kauensis, Cyanea recta, C. fissa, Platydesma. Preserved_Specimen Fern on basalt walls around waterfall, rhizome sub-erect, ca. 30 plants in immediate area, with Deparia cataracticola, mapped. Wood, K.R. 16708 Kauai BISH 2016-01-07
10 Menisciopsis wailele Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details with Metrosideros-Dicranopteris Lowland Wet Forest. Associated plants: Hedyotis elatior, Panicum lineale, Machaerina angustifolia, Isachne distichophylla, Boehmeria grandis, Selaginella arbuscula, Odontosoria chinensis, Diplazium sandwichianum, Thelypteris sandwicensis, Bidens forbesii, Cyrtandra pallida, Hedyotis foggiana, Sadleria pallida, Aspenium excisum, Rhynchospora sclerioides, Touchardia latifolia. Major threats: Landslides, Rubus rosifolius, Ageratum conyzoides, Sacciolepis indica. Collected furing rappel along wet seeping rock face by waterfall. Preserved_Specimen fronds pendant, pinnae pale green Wood, K.R. 2449 Kauai BISH 1993-03-22
11 Menisciopsis wailele Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros-Cheirodendron-Dicranopteris wet forest and deeply carved drainage with riparian vegetation w/ Kadua affinis, Psychotria mariniana, P. hexandra, Coprosma kauaiensis, Syzygium sandwicensis, Perrottetia sandwicensis, Dubautia raillardioides, D. laxa, Meliope wawrana, M. clusiifolia, Myrsine w Preserved_Specimen rheophyte clinging to water carved basalt walls along stream, rhizome long creeping and becoming sub-erect, tenacious with abundant root system, some plants with 20 fronds in clump, young rooted plants emerging out of larger parent root systems, fronds pendent, medium green, plants mapped and photographed at occurrence. Kauai BISH
12 Menisciopsis wailele Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros wet forest with wet diff communities. W/Cheirodendron, Pipturus spp., Dubautia, Cyrtandra, Kadua centranthoides, K. elatior, K. foggiana, Psychotria, Melicope, Machaerina, Isachne, with ferns of Microlepia, Asplenium, Christella, Deparia Preserved_Specimen rhizome creeping, epipetric on wet cliff, fronds ca. 20-30, pendent, occasional with Deparia cataracticola [M. Kato] Wood, K.R. 12765 Kauai BISH 2008-01-12
13 Menisciopsis wailele Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Only few plants seen on rocks. Preserved_Specimen Metrosideros forest w/ Pipturus, Antidesma platyphylla, Ilex anomala, Sadleria cyathioides, Perrottetia sandwicensis, Cyrandra wainihaensis, Boehmeria grandis, Bidens forbesii, Dubautia plantaginea, Machaerina angusto Perlman, S. 24371 Kauai BISH 2015-03-03
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