Published December 22, 2017 | Version v1
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Adiantum latifolium Lam., Encycl.

  • 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

Adiantum latifolium Lam., Encycl. 1: 43. 1783.

Range: — Mexico to Panama; Antilles, Colombia to Trinidad, Guianas, and Bolivia (BE, CO, LP, PA, SC); Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil.

Ecology: —Common, terrestrial in wet and semideciduous lowland forests; 150–650(–1000) m.

Notes: —A widespread, variable species, together with Adiantum petiolatum (1-pinnate), A. terminatum, A. humile, and probably A. incertum all closely related. Rhizomes long-creeping (cord-like); blades with 1–4 pairs of lateral pinnae; pinnules 10–16 pairs per pinna, apices rounded to acute; pinnules glabrous on both surfaces, abaxially glaucous, margins of sterile pinnules finely serrate.

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 234, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.332.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13723685

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Biodiversity

Family
Pteridaceae
Genus
Adiantum
Kingdom
Plantae
Order
Polypodiales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
Lam., Encycl.
Species
latifolium
Taxon rank
species