Serpocaulon attenuatum (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) A.R.Sm.

Smith, Alan R., Kessler, Michael, León, Blanca, Almeida, Thaís Elias, Jiménez-Pérez, Iván & Lehnert, Marcus, 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XL. Polypodiaceae, Phytotaxa 354 (1), pp. 448-450 : 448-450

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Serpocaulon attenuatum (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) A.R.Sm.
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Serpocaulon attenuatum (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) A.R.Sm. View in CoL , Taxon 55(4): 927(–928). 2006.

= Polypodium attenuatum Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd., Sp. Pl. , ed. 4 [Willdenow], 5: 191. 1810.

Range: —Northern South America from the Guianas to Venezuela and Bolivia (SC).

Ecology: — Rare, known from a single Bolivian collection (Arroyo 660, USZ); terrestrial and saxicolous in semihumid to humid forests; 650 m.

Notes: — Serpocaulon richardii , which also has adnate pinnae, has 2–6 rows of sori between the costae and the pinna margins (1 row in S. attenuatum ), and long, septate hairs to ca. 1 mm along the rachises and costae abaxially (no such hairs in S. attenuatum ).

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