Published December 22, 2017 | Version v1
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Adiantum peruvianum Klotzsch, 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 peruvianum Klotzsch, Linnaea 18: 555. 1844 [1845].

Range: — Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia (CO, SC); cultivated in Brazil.

Ecology: —Uncommon, terrestrial in evergreen and semideciduous forests, also in calcareous rocky places; 450– 1450 m.

Notes: —Related to A. mathewsianum, which see. Rhizomes short-creeping; rachises glabrous; blades reddish when young, 3-pinnate proximally and 2-pinnate distally; pinnules ovate-trapeziform, alternate, 4–9 pairs per pinna, slightly reduced toward pinna apices, articulate, with stalks 0.5–1.5 cm long, color of stalks stopping abruptly at pinnule bases, terminal pinnule subrhombic, smaller than distal ones, pinnules glabrous on both surfaces, margins of sterile pinnules incised to lobate, irregularly serrate or crenate; 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 pages 236-237, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.332.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13723685

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Klotzsch, Linnaea
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Polypodiales
Family
Pteridaceae
Genus
Adiantum
Species
peruvianum
Taxon rank
species