Published December 22, 2017 | Version v1
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Adiantum ornithopodum Kuhn, Linnaea

  • 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 ornithopodum C.Presl ex Kuhn, Linnaea 36: 74. 1869.

Range: — Bolivia (SC) and Brazil.

Ecology: —Rare (2 collections known), terrestrial in lowland disturbed forests; 400 m.

Notes: —Most closely related to a group of southern Brazilian species with blades pedate at bases and with few or inconspicuous idioblasts: A. abscissum Schrad., A. curvatum Kaulf., and A. pentadactylon Langsd. & Fisch. Rhizomes short-creeping; rachises glabrous or with very few scattered articulate hairs; blades 2-or 3-forked, 3-or 4-pinnate proximally and 2-pinnate distally; pinnules 2–2.5 times longer than wide, 7–15 pairs per pinna, reduced toward pinna bases and apices, not articulate, stalked to 1 mm, pinnules glabrous on both surfaces, margins of sterile pinnules incised to lobate, irregularly serrate, indusia, oblong, glabrous.

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 236, 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
Kuhn, Linnaea
Species
ornithopodum
Taxon rank
species