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Ptisana purpurascens seedlings in the Conservation Biotechnology Unit at Kew

© Marcella Corcoran / Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Ptisana purpurascens seedlings growing at Kew

© Marcella Corcoran / Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Ptisana purpurascens seedlings growing in the nursery at Kew

© Marcella Corcoran / Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Ptisana purpurascens in cultivation in the nursery on Ascension

© Marcella Corcoran / Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Ptisana purpurascens in the nursery on Ascension

© Marcella Corcoran / Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Ptisana purpurascens immature plant

© Richard White
Ptisana purpurascens mature plant

© Tom Heller / Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Ptisana purpurascens mature plant

© Richard White
Ptisana purpurascens mature plant

© Alasdair Cameron
Ptisana purpurascens, underside of leaves

© Marcella Corcoran / Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Ptisana purpurascens mature plant

© Alasdair Cameron
Ptisana purpurascens frond

© Richard White
Ptisana purpurascens frond with sori

© Richard White
Ptisana purpurascens habitat

© Marcella Corcoran / Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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