Published December 22, 2017 | Version v1
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Adiantum petiolatum Desv., Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin Mag. Neuesten Entdeck. Gesammten Naturk.

  • 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 petiolatum Desv., Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin Mag. Neuesten Entdeck. Gesammten Naturk. 5: 326. 1811.

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

Ecology: —Evergreen forests on lowlands; 100–500 m.

Notes: —Related to A. latifolium and allies, differing especially by the 1-pinnate blades. Rhizomes long-creeping, nodose; rachises with filiform scales and hairs; blades rarely 2-pinnate at bases, and with 1 or 2 pairs of lateral pinnae; pinnae short-stalked or sessile, stalks ca. 1–4 mm long, midveins close to middle, abaxially glabrous and often glaucous, margins of sterile blades minutely serrulate; indusia linear-arcuate, 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 237, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.332.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13723685

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Biodiversity

Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Polypodiales
Family
Pteridaceae
Genus
Adiantum
Species
petiolatum
Taxon rank
species