Adiantum jordanii
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Embryophytes |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Division: | Polypodiophyta |
| Class: | Polypodiopsida |
| Order: | Polypodiales |
| Family: | Pteridaceae |
| Genus: | Adiantum |
| Species: | A. jordanii |
| Binomial name | |
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Adiantum jordanii is a perennial species of maidenhair fern, in the Vittarioideae subfamily of the Pteridaceae.[1] The species is known by the common name California maidenhair.[2]
It is native to California and Baja California. A. jordanii is found in the southernmost part of its range in Baja California with such flora associates as Mimulus aridus and Daucus pusillus.[3]
Each trailing leaf may reach over half a meter in length and is made up of many rounded green segments. Each segment has two to four lobes and it may split between the lobes,[4] the underside of each segment bearing one to four sori.
Adiantum jordanii is a carrier of the fungus-like oomycete, Phytophthora ramorum, which causes Sudden Oak Death. The USDA enforces an import control, focusing intensely on areas (CA, OR, NY in U.S.) that are infected with Sudden Oak death. When sold, they must be identified by place of origin and must also be accompanied by a phytosanitary certificate. The USDA warns to not take cuttings from wild specimens.[5]
Adiantum jordanii, from native plant nurseries, is used in native plant and wildlife gardens.
Uses
Ohlone people used the plant as a decoction to treat stomach ailments, as a blood purifier, for "pain below the shoulders", and to aid placental expulsion.[6] In the early 1900s, it was reported that in Salinan land, indigenous people boiled the plant into a tea and consumed it to aid difficult childbirths, induce menstruation, stop hemorrhage, and for the liver.[7]
Culture
Following the colonization of California, A. jordanii came to be known by the Spanish name culantrillo, a diminutive of culantro. Its use by Californios in blood disorders and menstrual regulation is similar to the use of the related A. capillus-veneris, also called culantrillo, which Cephas L. Bard described as a practice introduced to California from the rest of Mexico.[8] As a medicinal plant, it forms a part of the ethnobotany of indigenous people in its range, including Ohlone, Salinan, and possibly Chumash people. Culantrillo is one of the herbs whose uses by indigenous Californians were documented and compiled in the early 1900s by Andreu Garriga, a parish priest who administered the then abandoned San Antonio de Padua Mission.[7]
References
- ↑ Christenhusz, Maarten J. M.; Zhang, Xian-Chun; Schneider, Harald (2011). "A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns" (PDF). Phytotaxa. 19: 7–54. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.19.1.2.
- ↑ U.S. Department of Agriculture. 2009
- ↑ C. Michael Hogan. 2008
- ↑ Jepson Manual. 1993
- ↑ U.S.D.A. Import Control Notice
- ↑ Bocek, Barbara R. (1984). "Ethnobotany of Costanoan Indians, California, Based on Collections by John P. Harrington". Economic Botany. 38 (2): 247. ISSN 0013-0001.
- 1 2 Janice, Timbrook; et al. (Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History) (2007). Chumash Ethnobotany: Plant knowledge among the Chumash people of southern California (1st ed.). Berkeley, California: Heyday. pp. 23–24. ISBN 9781597140485. OCLC 77011598.
- ↑ Bard, Cephas Little (August 1894). "A Contribution to the History of Medicine in Southern California". The Southern California Practitioner. IX (8). 107 North Spring Street, Los Angeles: 306 – via Internet Archive.
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Further reading
- C. Michael Hogan. 2008. Coastal Woodfern (Dryopteris arguta), GlobalTwitcher, ed. N. Stromberg
- Jepson Manual. 1993. Adiantum jordanii, University of California, Berkeley
- U.S. Department of Agriculture. 2009. USDA Plants Profile: Adiantum jordanii
- U.S.D.A. Import Control Notice. Import prohibited plants and areas related to sudden oak death