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Cheilanthes pilosa Goldm.

  • 1. Systematic Botany, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, CH- 8008 Zurich, Switzerland
  • 2. University Herbarium, 1001 Valley Life Sciences Bldg. # 2465, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 - 2465
  • 3. Instituto de Botânica, Av. Miguel Estéfano, 3687, CEP 04301 - 902, São Paulo, SP, Brasil

Description

Cheilanthes pilosa Goldm., Nova Acta 19, Suppl. I, 455. 1843.

Range: —Central Peru to Bolivia (CH, CO, LP, SC) and central Argentina.

Ecology: —Common; saxicolous in cliffs and rock crevices in semihumid habitats; 2200–4650 m.

Notes: —Leaves small, to 25(40) cm long, blades 2-to 3-pinnate; rachises and segments with long, segmented, gland-tipped hairs; rhizome scales shining, rigid, dark brown. In Bolivia, there is great variation in this relatively common species. Fay & Fay 2844 (UC) is very hairy, the hairs nearly obscuring the abaxial lamina; it is also quite large, ca. 8 cm wide. The hairs are contorted, long (to 1 mm), and not appressed. The species as here construed is quite likely a complex needing further study to delimit the species. Possibly related to Cheilanthes juergensii Rosenst., from southern Brazil.

Notes

Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Smith, Alan R. & Prado, Jefferson, 2017, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXVII. Pteridaceae, pp. 201-250 in Phytotaxa 332 (3) on page 209, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.332.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13723685

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Goldm.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Polypodiales
Family
Pteridaceae
Genus
Cheilanthes
Species
pilosa
Taxon rank
species